Sluggish system

[Subhro]

You can do a pkg_delete -a.
This will delete all the packages.

After that pkgdb -fF
This will rebuild the package database. However I dont think this is necessary.

then reinstall everything as required.

Thanks and Best Regards
Subhro

On 5/16/06, cknipe at savage.za.org <cknipe at savage.za.org> wrote:
> Quoting Subhro <subhro.kar at gmail.com>:
>
> > Why do you want to NOT reinstall the OS?
>
> Loads of data, loads of accounts / passwords, nothing wrong with the 'base' part
> of the OS... There's no need to really.
>
> My problems are generated from to many ports / inconsistencies in the ports, and
> so forth.  So that's really the only part of the OS that actually needs some
> serious work.
>
> I also can't re-install the Base OS remotely...   Yes, I can make world to
> upgrade it (which has already been done), but not reinstall it in the sense of
> format / repartition / etc...
>
> --
> Chris
>
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