pkgng beta 11: pkg-static: The database is outdated and opened readonly *** Error code 74

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:15:35PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:22:49AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:02:09AM +0200, Julien Laffaye wrote:
> > > On 04/16/2012 10:20 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > >Updating ports-mgmt/pkg to b11:
> > > >
> > > >===>   Installing for pkg-1.0.b11
> > > >===>    Generating temporary packing list
> > > >===>   Checking if ports-mgmt/pkg already installed
> > > >pkg-static: The database is outdated and opened readonly
> > > >*** Error code 74
> > > >
> > > >Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg.
> > > >
> > > >Please advise
> > > >
> > > The database schema changed so pkgng try to upgrade it. But here pkgng 
> > > does not have rights to do so. Try re-run pkgng as root.
> > 
> > YOu mean pkg2ng?
> > 
> > I get:
> > 
> > Registering autoconf-wrapper-20101119... pkg: The database is outdated and opened readonly
> > pkg: The database is outdated and opened readonly
> > failed.
> > 
> > and the same for all other ports.
> > 
> 
> Well you should be upgrading from beta8 it is known there are problems for
> upgrading from beta8 to newer version, but it is really hard to determine where
> the problem comes from.
> 
> regards,
> Bapt

Anyway, I just need to recover somehow.
Which database are we talking about,
is it /var/db/pkg? Will it help if
I remove it, and start from scratch?

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