From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 2 13:34:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CFE16A415 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:34:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.ipactive.de [85.214.39.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688F843D48 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:34:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (gprs-pool-1-008.eplus-online.de [212.23.126.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04F933D0F for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:34:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.201.3] (unknown [192.168.201.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA4E2E518; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:34:01 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44A7CB60.4010102@vwsoft.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:34:24 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060610) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominik Zalewski References: <200607021408.33744.dzalewski@open-craft.com> In-Reply-To: <200607021408.33744.dzalewski@open-craft.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade failed - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:34:12 -0000 On 12/23/-58 20:59, Dominik Zalewski wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-stable . Today I updated my ports tree using cvsup and > then I ran as usually portupgrade -a . It upgraded my portupgrade to version > portupgrade-2.1.3.2,2. After that portupgrade stopped working. > > in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Dominik, I've had the same today and thought it has been my mistake (doing a pkg_version in parallel). Just delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and run `pkgdb -F' and all should be fine. At least on my system I was able to rebuild pkgdb.db that way and all is working again. Greetings, Volker