pkg_info +COMMENTS problem
K Anderson
freebsduser at comcast.net
Sat Oct 4 09:20:09 PDT 2003
srenna at vdbmusic.com wrote:
> Gave that a shot, but still seeing the same problem
> any other tips?
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:36:37 +0100
> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:00:55AM -0400,
>>srenna at vdbmusic.com wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I'm having a problem. Whenever I run pkg_info with
>>>whatever switches, I receive this at the top of the
>>
>>read
>>
>>>out, any ideas?
>>>
>>>pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
>>
>>Somewhere under /var/db/pkg you have a +COMMENT file
>>which isn't
>>readable by your UID. That's not correct -- all of the
>>files under
>>/var/db/pkg should be readable by all. That is mode 644
>>for general
>>files or mode 755 for directories and executables. All
>>should be
>>owned by root:wheel as well. Except for +MTREE_DIRS
>>files which seem
>>to be mode 444 for some odd reason.
>>
>>Try this (as root):
>>
>> # cd /var/db/pkg
>> # chown -R root:wheel .
>> # chmod -R a+rX,go-w .
>> # chmod 444 */+MTREE_DIRS
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>--
>>Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26
>>The Paddocks
>>
>
> Savill
>
>>Way
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>
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Can you do it as user root? If not you might have a corrupt file or
several corrupt files. Can you edit any of them and save them?
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