cannot upgrade

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 14:23, Jim Stapleton wrote:
> I would guess that means the file was corrupted somehow, though I
> don't know how.
>
> At any rate, I don't know how to fix that, and not loose the stored
> information.

You "pkgdb -fu" and it recreates the database. You will also probably 
find that you need to recreate your INDEX[-*].db. After that, 
everything works just fine. All I did is run pkg-version and it rebuilt 
the INDEX.db.

Kent

>
> On 7/2/06, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> > On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said:
> > > Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!]
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:444:in `__system':
> > > Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ
> > > (CommandFailedError) from
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:467:in `__sudo'
> > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:473:in
> > > `xsystem!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:960:in
> > > `autofix!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:956:in
> > > `autofix' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:475:in `main'
> > >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:714:in `main'
> > >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:815:in
> > > `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:209:in `main'
> > >         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1951
> >
> > [root at espresso ~]# pkgdb -F
> > --->  Checking the package registry database
> > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
> > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid
> > argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree>
> > in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or
> > format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot
> > update the pkgdb!]
> >
> > This doesn't look good.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
> > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
> > takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the
> > opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
>
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