/var corrupted.....

David King dking at ketralnis.com
Wed Nov 1 18:03:16 UTC 2006


> Ok... good tip thanks.  That would definitely leave my db/pkg out of
> whack.  I wonder if a 'portupgrade -af' would fix that up?

I doubt it. How would portupgrade know what is installed (to which -a  
applies) without a package database?



> I'll wait for others to weigh in as well on option 1 before going this
> way.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> The downside of this (option 2) is you'll loose some important
>> information about your system, /var/db/pkg comes first to my mind. If
>> you don't have any backups try to recover anything you can first.  
>> Good
>> luck!
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Karol
>>
>
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