Problems with pkg_delete *

[Saifi Khan]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Sd?vtaker wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to clean up and start again the installation of pkg since i did a
> broken update in python and qt and pretty much everything is broken
> portupgrade never ends, doing make in ports crash pretty much all the time
> ><.
> I tried
> # pkg_delete '*'
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> # pkg_delete 'kde*'
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> Failed both in multiuser so I tried to do this as monouser and was the same.
> Im running
> FreeBSD user.domain 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24
> 00:57:44 UTC 2009
> root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Damian
> 

There was an earlier thread that discussed this issue
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg101896.html

Perhaps this may help you.


thanks
Saifi.