Various package/ports problems

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Sep 4 14:08:39 PDT 2006


On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:00:20PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:52:08AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > > For example if i try to run "portversion" i get:
> > > 
> > >   undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
> > >   /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error
> > > 
> > > from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to date on the system).
> > 
> > :> pkgdb -f
> > 
> > ~ $ sudo pkgdb -f
> > ~ $ portversion
> > undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
> > /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error
> > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-freebsd4]
> > 
> > Abort trap (core dumped)
> > ~ $
> 
> ::>Check the manpage, probably I meant pkgdb -fu
> 
> Sorry, i dont understand what im checking hte manpage to
> have it do. Running pkgdb -fu does rebuild the package 
> database, but i get the same Bus Error thing from Ruby
> as above.

Running which version of portupgrade?  Also try 'cd /usr/ports; make
fetchindex' first.

> > > If i try to run "pkg_info" I quickly get:
> > > 
> > >   pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*'
> > 
> > :> Deinstall the package that was built for a later version of 
> > :> FreeBSD.
> > 
> > KrisHow do i tell which this is? Most of this box seems to be compiled
> > from ports, not installed packages. apache+ipv6 is not installed.
> > 
> > ~ $ pkg_info
> > ImageMagick-nox11-6.0.2.7 Image processing tools
> > analog-6.0_1,1      An extremely fast program for analysing WWW logfiles
> > pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*'
> > ~
> 
> ::>grep -r @conflicts /var/db/pkg and remove all listed packages.
> 
> Kris
> Which listed packages? The output of this grep looks like:
> /var/db/pkg/mysql-server-4.1.20/+CONTENTS:@conflicts mysql-server-3.*
> /var/db/pkg/mysql-server-4.1.20/+CONTENTS:@conflicts mysql-server-4.[02-9].*
> /var/db/pkg/mysql-server-4.1.20/+CONTENTS:@conflicts mysql-server-5.*
> 
> But i dont want to remove mysql-server-4.1.20, because this seems
> to be the version that is actively running on this machine, and i dont
> want to disable it. Same for apache+mod_ssl, which accounts for
> alot of the other conflicts.

You need to recognize that you've got the system into a damaged state
already, so it's going to take further intrusive work to repair it.

> Also, when i try to delete one of the ports that seemed less
> critical, even that didnt work:
> ~ $ sudo pkg_delete -f jade-1.2.1_9
> pkg_delete: package 'jade-1.2.1_9' is required by these other packages
> and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway):
> sgmlformat-1.7_2
> pkg_delete: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts sp-1.*'
> ~
> 
> ...and jade-1.2.1_9 is still there.
> 
> Thank you again for your continued attention, Kris.

What happens if you try to reinstall it from the port, setting
FORCE_PKG_REGISTER?

Kris
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