Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:26:30 +0800 From: "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot upgrade Message-ID: <a25afc300607031026s63120bb5q37fab1fc876f4801@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a25afc300607031003q32cb24f1ge09888b71ec17319@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060702183123.GC12262@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20060702183358.GD12262@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <80f4f2b20607021423h3de5f063raf7ea0f2843c3399@mail.gmail.com> <200607021450.10112.kstewart@owt.com> <a25afc300607031003q32cb24f1ge09888b71ec17319@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/4/06, jan gestre <freebsd.ph@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 7/3/06, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > > > > On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:23, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > > I would guess that means the file was corrupted somehow, though I > > > don't know how. > > > > > > At any rate, I don't know how to fix that, and not loose the stored > > > information. > > > > You "pkgdb -fu" and it recreates the database. You will also probably > > find that you need to recreate your INDEX[-*].db. After that, > > everything works just fine. All I did is run pkg-version and it rebuilt > > the INDEX.db. > > > i 'm having this same problem :( tried everything that is mentioned in > here but to no avail. i even tried make deinstall and make reinstall and it > didnt work, pkg_delete wont work coz it cant find portupgrade. pls help > > i fixed the problem, i saw a solution in one of the threads and it is now ok. here is what i did: # cd /var/db/pkg/ # mv pkgdb.db pkgdb.db.orig # pkgdb -fu everything went back to normal, portupgrade port was the problem as stated by the maintainer.
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