Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 20:25:02 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Joey Garcia <bear@unix.homeip.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange pkg_info error message - what's wrong with it? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020206202502.01959060@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <20020206173553.O519-100000@we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.n et> References: <20020206172743.I519-100000@we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net>
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Joey: See my post of a few minutes ago.... I never had any such interruption, but had the identical problem on 4 separate boxes. In my earlier post about the problem with samba, I show my solution. Delete the port and recvsup. At 05:38 PM 2.6.2002 -0800, Joey Garcia wrote: > > >Woops, forgot to mention that after the cvsup I had to rebuild autoconf. >See, the problem is that I guess it didn't completely register because it >got powered off and therefore /var/db/pkg/autoconf213 was empty and that's >why pkg_info couldn't read the +CONTENTS file. Okay, problem solved. > >On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Joey Garcia wrote: > >> >> Okay, so I cvsup'd my ports tree and the messages went away. Interesting. >> Anyways, I think what happened was that someone in my department cut the >> power to the machine when I was building some ports and it probably >> screwed something up. I didn't realize this until I actually went to the >> machine and turned on the monitor and saw that it had just finished >> booting. I was like wtf?!? Anyways, there's no more messages. But, if it >> happens to someone then at least this will be archived to help those out >> in the future. >> >> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Joey Garcia wrote: >> >> > >> > Okay, so I noticed that pkg_info is giving me a weird error message. Here >> > is some output and an example of usage and the message that I get. >> > >> > [3:59pm] bear@ircla (~) # pkg_info -Ia | grep ethereal >> > pkg_info: unable to open +CONTENTS file >> > ethereal-0.9.1 An X11/GTK network analyzer/capture tool >> > >> > The second line after the actual command invocation gives a message >> > concerning the +CONTENTS file. I assumed that was the +CONTENTS file >> > located for each package in /var/db/pkg. I'm not sure why it's giving me >> > that error. >> > >> > This machine has been upgraded from 4.3-RELEASE to 4.5-RELEASE just the >> > other day. I've also taken the liberty of going into >> > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install and issuing a make install to try to >> > reinstall the pkg_* utilities. >> > >> > Not sure what other information to give you, but if you need more just ask >> > and I'll be happy to respond. >> > >> > Joseph Garcia >> > >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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