Portupgrade out of swap - corrupt pkg info...

[Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD]

I updated the ports on my laptop last night ran:

portsnap fetch update

followed by:

portupgrade -arR

This ran normally until it hit vim-gtk2. It built fine but whilst it was registering the installation became unresponsive.

Hard rebooted, and found that in /var/log/messages it referred to being out of swap (I don't have the exact message to hand).

pkg_info did not show vim as installed, so when portupgrade finished a cd'd to /usr/ports/editors/vim and ran make install clean. This installed without error.

However, now when I run pkg_info it reports that the pkg info for vim-gtk2 is corrupt.

Could anyone help with 2 questions:

~ How do I fix the package database entry for vim?

~ What might have caused my machine to run out of swap? It was running X and twm with 1 xterm open. For hardware it has 256MB RAM and a 470MB swap partition. I've not had this problem before.

This is on 6-STABLE from about 2 weeks ago.

Apologies for any iffy formatting - this is being sent from my office account via MS Outlook.

TIA

Peter Harrison 

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