From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 08:09:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1672816A481 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:09:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (host2.dynacom.ondsl.gr [62.103.35.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3492743D48 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:09:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k558Kkew031865 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:20:46 +0300 Received: from localhost (achill@localhost) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id k558KiIp031861 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:20:46 +0300 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:20:44 +0300 (EEST) From: Achilleus Mantzios To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: package corrupt/whats the "official" way of dealing with? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:09:11 -0000 Hi, during a 6.0-BETA1 to 6.1-RELEASE-p1 upgrade cycle and a subsequent portupgrade -PRr '*', (and most probably while doing the nvidia port), my system crashed and it left the /var/db/pkg system in a corrupted condition: pkg_info: the package info for package 'apache-ant-1.6.5' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'arts-1.4.2,1' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'at-spi-1.6.4' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'bitstream-vera-1.10_1' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'bugbuddy-2.10.0_1' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'cairo-0.4.0' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'cvsup-16.1h_2' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'dasher-3.2.15' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'dri-6.2.1,2' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'eclipse-3.1' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'eel-2.10.1_1' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'el-kde-i18n-3.4.2' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'el-openoffice-1.1.5.rc2' is corrupt pkg_info: the package info for package 'eog-2.10.2' is corrupt None of the popular -f -u etc... pkgdb switches seem to remedy the problem. What should i do? I am thinking of deleting the above dirs and installing those packages again. -- -Achilleus