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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:40:23 +0400
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: latest portupgrade problem
Message-ID:  <4496A947.4020306@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <e7646o$63p$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Mark Evenson wrote:
> I am getting (a possibly unrelated error):
> 
> portupgrade -as
> Updating the pkgdb <format:dbm_hash> in /var/db/pkg ... ** Database file
> locked. Waiting.
> 
> Which waits forever.

Not forever really but only two minutes.
Looks like you have a dead lock file which will removed after timeout or
you can remove it by hands: rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db.lock

-- 
Dixi.
Sem.



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