cannot upgrade
jan gestre
freebsd.ph at gmail.com
Mon Jul 3 17:30:42 UTC 2006
On 7/3/06, Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
i 'm having this same problem :( tried everything that is mentioned in here
but to no avail. i even tried make deinstall and make reinstall and it didnt
work, pkg_delete wont work coz it cant find portupgrade. pls help
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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> Kent Stewart
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