From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 19:26:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE58106564A for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 19:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98D914FCED; Wed, 4 May 2011 19:26:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DC1A849.70807@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:26:01 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110429 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Ottevanger References: <4DC13D32.1070503@beasties.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <4DC13D32.1070503@beasties.demon.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daily backups of pkgdb failure 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: Wed, 04 May 2011 19:26:03 -0000 On 05/04/2011 04:49, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my Soekris 4801 boxes from 8.1 to 8.2-STABLE (r221326) a few > days ago and now I get the following error in the daily mail: > > Backing up package db directory: > tar: : Cannot stat: No such file or directory > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. > > These messages originate from /etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb, > apparently a recent addition. > > The culprit is probably on line 21: > > make -f/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk -V PKG_DBDIR > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 11: Could not find > /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue Thanks, I'll take a look. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/