portupgrade: uninstall error ???

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Mar 8 23:26:40 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:30:48AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:16:12AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I am seeing many uninstall errors lately when I do a portupgrade
> > > (particularily with Gnome).
> > > Of course one can manually
> > > # make deinstall && make reinstall
> > > but this is becoming a bit tiresome.
> > > So I would like to know what is the reason of these errors:
> >
> > It's hard to say since my psychic error message guessing powers aren't
> > working well today.  Can you give us a hint? :-)
> I understand what you mean, but it is a bit difficult to
> describe, since I don't have an idea myself. What I see is
> something like this:
> After a
> # portupgrade -r pkgconfig
> I receive

That still doesn't tell us anything.  Look further back in the
portupgrade output and post the actual errors it encounters
(e.g. record the output to a file with script(1) or tee(1) and then
extract the relevant parts).

Kris
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