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Date:      Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:41:34 -0800
From:      Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pgk upgrade solver problems
Message-ID:  <87lhmkv4kx.fsf@elk.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <548365A7.4070306@yahoo.com> (Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions's message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:23:03 -0500")
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Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
writes:

> I was hoping that it would clear it all like it did on one of my machines.
>
> However, on  the other.... well, I deinstalled all the questionable
> packages and reinstalled them.  I believe it's a problem with pkg, as
> the other machine was PCBSD.
>
> Let me check the thread....
>
> Ok... found it.  It was between myself and another guy.
>
> pkg upgrade -f
>
> Let me know.  Remember, it's the *BSD community, everyone is here to help.

I was hoping to avoid that, but there are no other suggestions, so I
guess I will have to.

Thanks for the help.

> It did clean up a lot at that point, but there were still 1 or 2.
> On 12/06/2014 13:51, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>> writes:
>>
>>> Carl,
>>>
>>> I had something like this and decided to regen the pkg database.
>>>
>>> pkg -Ba  (I think)
>>>
>>> It cleared most of this up.
>> Thanks for the reply, but that didn't seem to help my problem.  I assume
>> that you meant 'pkg check -Ba', but that just checks the database and
>> doesn't regenerate the database.  The pkg check did find some missing
>> files, so I forced the reinstall of two packages and that eliminated the
>> warnings from the check.  Unfortunately, I still got the same warnings
>> when I tried to upgrade, so I exited out again.
>>
>>> On 12/05/2014 23:58, Carl Johnson wrote:
>>>> I have just tried to run a 'pkg upgrade', but I am getting a lot of 'SAT
>>>> solver' problems.  It appeared that it wants to remove the offending
>>>> packages, so I did a '^C' after the first few of them to abort any
>>>> operations.
>>>>
>>>> The program output looked normal at first and downloaded all of the
>>>> packages, but then I started getting errors like these (long lines):
>>>>
>>>>     pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>>>>     cannot install package p5-Locale-gettext~devel/p5-Locale-gettext, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>>>     cannot install package xfce~x11-wm/xfce4, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>>>     pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>>>>     cannot install package Thunar~x11-fm/thunar, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>>>     pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>>>>     cannot install package glib~devel/glib20, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>>>     cannot install package xfce4-desktop~x11-wm/xfce4-desktop, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>>>     pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>>>>     cannot install package libxfce4util~x11/libxfce4util, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>>>     cannot install package libreoffice~editors/libreoffice, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>>>
>>>> I can't figure out if these messages mean that it will not upgrade these
>>>> packages, or if it means that it will remove the packages.  I currently
>>>> have pkg version 1.3.8_3 and last upgraded all packages about a month
>>>> ago.  I also upgraded the base system from 10.0-RELEASE-p12 to
>>>> 10.1-RELEASE since then, but I didn't think that should effect the
>>>> packages.  Does anybody have any suggestions on what these errors mean,
>>>> and what I can do about them?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
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Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org



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