From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 17 04:55:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19C61065672 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:55:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gedankezauberer@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAAEF8FC1E for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.51]) by QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tgsl1c00316AWCUA7gv2nu; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:55:02 +0000 Received: from debianbox.local ([76.112.93.25]) by OMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tgv01c0080Yq9Sc8Sgv18J; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:55:02 +0000 From: Allen To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:53:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910170053.52329.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> Subject: Quickie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:55:01 -0000 Hey all, I know this SHOULD go to FreeBSD-Questions, but I'm trying to fix up a machine right now, so I don't have normal access to my mail account, and this is the only one I can send to without spending a half hour redoing something, so please allow this once to ask here: On my test machine, I noticed the usual mail to root letting me know that there were some security problems in a few things I have installed, like Opera and Thunderbird, and so I first did a freebsd-update to get the base system updated to make sure that was done, and I also did portupdate on those packages like this: portupdate -v opera I did it on pidgin and realized it couldn't sign in anymore and thought "Oh man, one of those I'm tired errors" I forgot to update the other parts, so rather than make a huge list of stuff to update, I did this: portupdate or portupgrade -a to get them all. After I did this, I noticed that pkg_add -r no longer lets me add things. It says that it has no access or can't be found. Just to be sure I did pkg_add -r kde and got the same message (I already have KDE, I did it to see if it was just me spelling it wrong) I know I missed something... I just can't for the life of me find out what... I know I'm doing something wrong though. So anyway, after running it with -a, what should I have done? Why would a few things stop working ? Did I do something terribly stupid? The network connection is fine, I checked that, it's just that I can't use pkg_add -r anymore.