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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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