Corrupt pkgdb

[Beech Rintoul]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 07:05, Joshua Lewis wrote:
>    I am setting up a new system and ran a portupgrade -a. Unfortunately I
>    also in my arrogance tried to run XDM while the portupgrade was
>    running. Well to make a long story short I could not exit out of XDM
>    and get back to my console and had to reboot the system. Now I get an
>    error that my pkgdb is corrupt when I try to rerun the portupgrade.
>
>
>
>    Is there a way to rebuild that DB or do I have to reinstall the whole
>    OS? I don't know how that pkgdb gets created so I don't know if it is
>    created during the install or when I installed portupgrade.
>
>
>
>    Any advice is welcome. Thanks.
>    Sincerely,
>    Joshua Lewis

Just rm or mv /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and it will be rebuilt the next time you 
run portupgrade.

Beech

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