How to fix corrupt package info?

Indigo 23 indigo23 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 08:22:14 UTC 2006


Unfortunately, it looks like I have much bigger problems :(  I tried
what you suggested and it did not work.  I am hoping there is a plan
B.  If there is, please let me know what it is.

Thanks.

On 10/26/06, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Indigo 23 wrote:
> > I was recently running portupgrade after my computer locked up twice
> > (and both times I did fsck), and I noticed some errors about package
> > info being corrupt.
>
> find /var/db/pkg -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
> find /var/db/pkg -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
>
> That should fix it up for you. If it doesn't, you have much bigger
> problems.
>
> hth,
>
> Doug
>
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