Packages Corrupted

KP newbie at freebsdblog.org
Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 PST 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Abu Khaled" <khaled.abu at gmail.com>
To: "KP" <newbie at freebsdblog.org>
Cc: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01 at gmail.com>;
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Packages Corrupted


> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:55:22 +0200, KP <newbie at freebsdblog.org> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01 at gmail.com>
> > To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: Packages Corrupted
> >
> > > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:27 pm, KP wrote:
> > > > I installed apache, php and mysql with pkg_add, unfortunately I
> > > > messed up the directory /var/db during moving and linking. Now when
I
> > > > pkg_delete or pkg_add any php related packages, always got the error
> > > > message: "the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt", tried
> > > > "pkgdb -F" and it didn't work. This is a new server running 5.3
> > > > release, just installed serveral packages, but with the error
> > > > message, I feel the system totally corrupted. Is it possible to fix
> > > > this? Many thanks in advance!
> > > > Kevin
> > >
> > > If /var/db is "messed up" there is no way to know which installed
> > > package is associated with which port.  If you don't see any package
> > > names listed under /var/db/pkg they are as good as not being installed
> > > as far as the ports system is concerned. You should never fool with
> > > anything under /var/db/pkg, always leave that to the ports system to
> > > handle. What is the status of  /var/db/pkg now? Are there any package
> > > names listed in it?
> > >
> > > -Mike
> >
> > Thanks for your reply, Mike.
> > /var/db/pkg looks good
> > # ls
> > apache-1.3.33           mysql-client-4.0.21     php4-pcre-4.3.9
> > pkgdb.db
> > bison-1.75_2            perl-5.8.5              php4-posix-4.3.9
> > portupgrade-20041226_1
> > cvsup-without-gui-16.1h php4-bz2-4.3.9          php4-session-4.3.9
> > ruby-1.8.2_3
> > expat-1.95.8            php4-ctype-4.3.9        php4-tokenizer-4.3.9
> > ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2
> > gettext-0.13.1_1        php4-extensions-1.0     php4-xml-4.3.9
> > unixbench-4.1.0
> > libiconv-1.9.2_1        php4-mysql-4.3.9        php4-zlib-4.3.9
> > m4-1.4.1                php4-overload-4.3.9     pkg
> >
> > But If I try to delete a package, it will go to the error message in the
> > end.
> >
> > # pkg_delete php4-xml-4.3.9
> > pkg_delete: package 'php4-xml-4.3.9' is required by these other packages
and
> > may not be deinstalled: php4-extensions-1.0
> >
> > # pkg_delete php4-extensions-1.0
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> >
> >
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>
> Is pkg in /var/db/pkg/ a file or directory how did it end up there.
>
> -- 
> Kind regards
> Abu Khaled

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:55:22 +0200, KP <newbie at freebsdblog.org> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01 at gmail.com>
> > To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: Packages Corrupted
> >
> > > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:27 pm, KP wrote:
> > > > I installed apache, php and mysql with pkg_add, unfortunately I
> > > > messed up the directory /var/db during moving and linking. Now when
I
> > > > pkg_delete or pkg_add any php related packages, always got the error
> > > > message: "the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt", tried
> > > > "pkgdb -F" and it didn't work. This is a new server running 5.3
> > > > release, just installed serveral packages, but with the error
> > > > message, I feel the system totally corrupted. Is it possible to fix
> > > > this? Many thanks in advance!
> > > > Kevin
> > >
> > > If /var/db is "messed up" there is no way to know which installed
> > > package is associated with which port.  If you don't see any package
> > > names listed under /var/db/pkg they are as good as not being installed
> > > as far as the ports system is concerned. You should never fool with
> > > anything under /var/db/pkg, always leave that to the ports system to
> > > handle. What is the status of  /var/db/pkg now? Are there any package
> > > names listed in it?
> > >
> > > -Mike
> >
> > Thanks for your reply, Mike.
> > /var/db/pkg looks good
> > # ls
> > apache-1.3.33           mysql-client-4.0.21     php4-pcre-4.3.9
> > pkgdb.db
> > bison-1.75_2            perl-5.8.5              php4-posix-4.3.9
> > portupgrade-20041226_1
> > cvsup-without-gui-16.1h php4-bz2-4.3.9          php4-session-4.3.9
> > ruby-1.8.2_3
> > expat-1.95.8            php4-ctype-4.3.9        php4-tokenizer-4.3.9
> > ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2
> > gettext-0.13.1_1        php4-extensions-1.0     php4-xml-4.3.9
> > unixbench-4.1.0
> > libiconv-1.9.2_1        php4-mysql-4.3.9        php4-zlib-4.3.9
> > m4-1.4.1                php4-overload-4.3.9     pkg
> >
> > But If I try to delete a package, it will go to the error message in the
> > end.
> >
> > # pkg_delete php4-xml-4.3.9
> > pkg_delete: package 'php4-xml-4.3.9' is required by these other packages
and
> > may not be deinstalled: php4-extensions-1.0
> >
> > # pkg_delete php4-extensions-1.0
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
>
> Is pkg in /var/db/pkg/ a file or directory how did it end up there.
>
> -- 
> Kind regards
> Abu Khaled

Oh, it's a directory and contains several packages. I moved the db directory
to other place and made a link, but must have run a silly command, later I
found the old one still existed :-(.

I moved all files under /var/db/pkg/pkg/ into /var/db/pkg/, the probelms
seems fixed! Thank God! I reinstalled php and mysql packages without any
error messages. Thank you very much!

# pwd
/home/db/pkg/pkg
# ll
total 18
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:51 apache-1.3.33
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:47 expat-1.95.8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:51 mysql-client-4.0.21
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:51 mysql-server-4.0.21
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 29 23:43 ncftp-3.1.8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:47 perl-5.8.5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:51 php4-4.3.9
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:51 php4-mysql-4.3.9
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 02:53 qpopper-4.0.5_1





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