From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 09:05:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0859516A4D2 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.131.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2020B43D3F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:05:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjm1287@rit.edu) Received: (qmail 22362 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2004 17:05:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO garfield) ([67.51.173.248]) (envelope-sender ) by relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (FrontierMTA 2.3.7b) with SMTP for ; 23 Mar 2004 17:05:08 -0000 From: "Brian McCann" To: Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:07:06 -0500 Message-ID: <000901c410f9$4662d5c0$6500a8c0@garfield> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: Problem with pkgdb X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:05:19 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've got an urgent problem that needs fixing...and i'm stuck. One of the admins on one of our servers decided to delete the /var/db/pkg directory. I tried rebuilding it using pkfdb -Fu, and it returned nothing. Is there a way to recover from this...aside from backups? Thanks, - --Brian McCann -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBQGBuuURPmxonqOz6EQLMGQCfaZImpiyGUAdZngE2hNOAQ/FOnUwAn1K8 n16rBk+zSnTJo34xUoDv13ku =90fG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----