pkg_delete segfaulting after upgrading to 7.1

Ross Penner ross.penner at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 09:48:56 PST 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> rosbox# pkg_delete -f gpgme-1.1.5_1
>> pkg_delete: package 'gpgme-1.1.5_1' is required by these other packages
>> and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway):
>> seahorse-2.24.1_1
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> I've had similar problem, and found the problem is in the +CONTENTS in
> the corresponding folder under /var/db/pkg/ .
> It's caused by an empty @pkgdep line here.
> I don't know what went wrong when the +CONTENTS file was created. But
> delete all these empty @pkgdep lines solved my problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Henry

Worked for me too! Thanks a lot, I never would have thought to have tried that.


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