Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:56:59 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> Subject: Re: Having problems with my ports configuration Message-ID: <200802292256.59433.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <47C86A22.4010706@mahan.org> References: <47C86A22.4010706@mahan.org>
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On Friday 29 February 2008 21:25:06 Patrick Mahan wrote:
> System Info:
>
> Compaq Presario (AMD Athlon CPU)
> 256 Mbytes RAM
> 80 Gig IDE system disk
> FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE #0: Tue May 23 14:58:27 UTC 2006
>
> I am having problems with my current installed ports. Last week
> the drive where /usr/ports is upon (80 Gig IDE) start generating
> READ errors on the console and hanging the system. It took a few
> days of doing multiple reboots, fsck and BIOS work before it was
> back operating again.
>
> One of the issues that came out of this was it seemed that the
> ports database (/var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db) was corrupt. So I tried
> to rebuild it by deleting it and setting PKG_DBDIR). I issued
> a 'portsdb -Uu' and it fails -
You're confusing .db's here. /vardb/pkg/pkgdb.db is fixed or rebuilt, using
pkgdb -F. But read on...
>
> host# portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> wait..p5-DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-0.06001:
> "/usr/ports/japanese/p5-DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-Era" non-existent --
> dependency list incomplete
> ===> devel/p5-DateTime-Calendar-Japanese failed
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
You're missing that directory, fsck probably deleted it. If you wanted to keep
your old ports tree, you're outof luck without having a backup.
Otherwise:
csup -L2 /path/to/ports-supfile
Or use portsnap, or whatever you're comfy with.
> I've tried fetching a new INDEX, done a pkgdb -Fu, but nothing seems to
> work.
pkgdb -F does nothing? No errors, warnings? Could be your /var/db/pkg is
damaged as well, if it's the same disk.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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