From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 2 21:50:12 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 A187E16A4A7 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 21:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D240543FD6 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 21:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k62LntsK010431; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:49:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:50:09 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060702183123.GC12262@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20060702183358.GD12262@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <80f4f2b20607021423h3de5f063raf7ea0f2843c3399@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20607021423h3de5f063raf7ea0f2843c3399@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607021450.10112.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Jim Stapleton Subject: Re: cannot upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:50:12 -0000 On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:23, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I would guess that means the file was corrupted somehow, though I > don't know how. > > At any rate, I don't know how to fix that, and not loose the stored > information. You "pkgdb -fu" and it recreates the database. You will also probably find that you need to recreate your INDEX[-*].db. After that, everything works just fine. All I did is run pkg-version and it rebuilt the INDEX.db. Kent > > On 7/2/06, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said: > > > Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!] > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:444:in `__system': > > > Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ > > > (CommandFailedError) from > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:467:in `__sudo' > > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:473:in > > > `xsystem!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:960:in > > > `autofix!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:956:in > > > `autofix' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:475:in `main' > > > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:714:in `main' > > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:815:in > > > `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:209:in `main' > > > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1951 > > > > [root@espresso ~]# pkgdb -F > > ---> Checking the package registry database > > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... > > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid > > argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb > > in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or > > format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot > > update the pkgdb!] > > > > This doesn't look good. > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > Michael P. Soulier > > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It > > takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the > > opposite direction." --Albert Einstein > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html