From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 5 12:25:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 859AC16A4AB for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:25:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F8443D73 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:25:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so711919wxd for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:25:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.44.5 with SMTP id r5mr2442549wxr.1162729517471; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:25:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i15sm4747559wxd.2006.11.05.04.25.16; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:25:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3987DBE0D; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 07:25:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss.seibercom.net [192.168.0.4]) (Authenticated sender: gerard@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10947B99C; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 07:25:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:25:29 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom.NET In-Reply-To: <454C9C70.9010401@computer.org> References: <454BE131.9050303@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> <454C9C70.9010401@computer.org> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20061105072241.970D.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.28 [en] X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: /var corrupted..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:25:29 -0000 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