Corrupted pkg db. Recoverable?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:45:50 UTC
Hi all, I'm running 14.2-RELEASE-p2 with packages pulled from latest in Qemu running within Termux on an Android device. (I guess I like to create interesting challenges!) I recently ran `pkg upgrade`, then selected 'n' to cancel. (Too many packages.) Moments later, I decided to upgrade Vim only, and got this: # pkg install vim Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error pkg: An error occured while fetching package: No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD Error updating repositories! I'm now unable to install|upgrade packages, though I can do `pkg delete <pkg>` and `pkg autoremove` just fine. Is there a way to rebuild the pkg db, or in any way recover the ability to install|upgrade packages? I have backups of the drive images from before I updated to p2, but I'd like to try to fix the current install first. Thanks much! - Jonathan ____________________________________________ "Before Turing, things were done to numbers. After Turing, numbers began doing things"