Date: 12 Jun 2003 00:32:22 +0200 From: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> To: Viny <viny@scientiae.net> Cc: FREEBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pkgdb corrupted : doesn't recognized installed ports Message-ID: <1055370741.76284.22.camel@klamath.ankon.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030611220202.GA49242@tchoubou.scientiae.net> References: <20030611195110.GA48453@tchoubou.scientiae.net> <16103.41594.620810.565966@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20030611220202.GA49242@tchoubou.scientiae.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Am Thu, 2003-06-12 um 00.02 schrieb Viny: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:43:22PM -0400 or thereabouts, Robert Huff may have written : > > make a copy of the db > > delete the db > > rebuild the db from scratch > > > > The last may take a while, depending on how fast your machine > > is, but it may save you a lot of grief. > > Then run pkg_version (or equivalent) and update as desired. > > Thanks for the answer. > > What exactly do you call the db ? /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db ? or the whole > directory /var/db/pkg ? > Upon examination it seems that some files disappeared with the crash. > Actually, some +CONTENTS files to be more precise. Which explains I can't do > anything with these ports. > If there was a way to build /var/db/pkg from scratch I'd be very > happy =) Else, I plan to retrieve the cvs ports files matching the versions of > the programs installed on my computer and reinstall them. > > Viny Hello, I had a similar problem (crash, unexpected softupdate errors in /var, and a bombed /var/db/pkg). For me it was possible to extract the missing files from /var/lost+found, because although the directory names in the first level have been trashed, the contents were still there. Depending on the amount of missing ports, and the contents of lost+found, you might be able to move the missing files to their correct position. (I used a perl script to unconditionally do that, since _nothing_ was in /var/db/pkg =) ) -- Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+5630Yucd7Ow1ygwRAjpuAJoDx1XJnHCIsY0ydap8U4p4lyTZ5gCeMz51 e02V6GYI6Zb3y3mzxQ5nhXA= =4VO7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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