Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:25:29 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var corrupted..... Message-ID: <20061105072241.970D.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <454C9C70.9010401@computer.org> References: <454BE131.9050303@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> <454C9C70.9010401@computer.org>
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On Saturday November 04, 2006 at 08:58:08 (AM) Eric Schuele wrote: > Example from the man page: > rebuild all installed ports > > portmanager -u -f > > This might be my silver bullet. Its been running for quite some time > but it appears to be rebuilding everything and its full set of > dependencies. Thanks! > > I've never used portmanager before. Always portupgrade. Nice. > > I was having all sorts of difficulties using `pkgdb -F`. possibly > something else gone wrong on my machine. It was complaining of > DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND? and complaining that it could not convert nil to > String? Never seen it do that before. You might have wanted to include the "-l" flag so you would have had a log of what actually transpired. Not a big thing I guess. Be sure to run 'pkgdb -aFu' when portmanager finishes. It usually does not report any errors, but it cannot hurt to be on the safe side. -- Gerard
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