freebsd-ports Digest, Vol 144, Issue 5

[Daniele Tinivella]

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Subject: freebsd-ports Digest, Vol 144, Issue 5
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:00:51 +0000 (GMT)

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>     1. pkgdb -F stuck (Rob)
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> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:00:06 +1100
> From: Rob <rbyrnes at mailshack.com>
> Subject: pkgdb -F stuck
> To: ports at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <200601182200.07133.rbyrnes at mailshack.com>
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> Hi all,
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> I was in the middle of updating the KDE ports when we had a blackout and my
> UPS wasn't able to keep the box alive long enough.  I have a feeling the
> pkgdb.db is corrupt, because when I try to do anything that touches it, the
> process hangs while updating the pkgdb:
> 
> % ps ax | grep ruby
> 4021  p2  R+   1288:56.99 /usr/local/bin/ruby18 /usr/local/sbin/portinstall -O
> kdebase
> 
> Any way to recover this?
> 
> cheers,
> Rob
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:46:38 +1100
> From: Dave Symonds <dsymonds at gmail.com>
> Subject: pkgdb -F stuck
> To: ports at freebsd.org
> Cc: Rob <rbyrnes at mailshack.com>
> Message-ID: <ee77f5c20601180346y472475e5h at mail.gmail.com>
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> On 18/01/06, Rob <rbyrnes at mailshack.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was in the middle of updating the KDE ports when we had a blackout and my
> > UPS wasn't able to keep the box alive long enough.  I have a feeling the
> > pkgdb.db is corrupt, because when I try to do anything that touches it, the
> > process hangs while updating the pkgdb:
> >
> > % ps ax | grep ruby
> > 4021  p2  R+   1288:56.99 /usr/local/bin/ruby18 
> > /usr/local/sbin/portinstall -O
> > kdebase
> >
> > Any way to recover this?
> 
> Run "pkgdb -fu". It should rebuild the database from scratch.
> 
> 
> Dave.
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