Mel presented these words - circa 2/29/08 1:56 PM->
On Friday 29 February 2008 21:25:06 Patrick Mahan wrote:
System Info:
Compaq Presario (AMD Athlon CPU)
256 Mbytes RAM
80 Gig IDE system disk
FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE #0: Tue May 23 14:58:27 UTC 2006
I am having problems with my current installed ports. Last week
the drive where /usr/ports is upon (80 Gig IDE) start generating
READ errors on the console and hanging the system. It took a few
days of doing multiple reboots, fsck and BIOS work before it was
back operating again.
One of the issues that came out of this was it seemed that the
ports database (/var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db) was corrupt. So I tried
to rebuild it by deleting it and setting PKG_DBDIR). I issued
a 'portsdb -Uu' and it fails -
You're confusing .db's here. /vardb/pkg/pkgdb.db is fixed or rebuilt, using
pkgdb -F. But read on...
Okay...
host# portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..p5-DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-0.06001:
"/usr/ports/japanese/p5-DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-Era" non-existent --
dependency list incomplete
===> devel/p5-DateTime-Calendar-Japanese failed
*** Error code 1
1 error
You're missing that directory, fsck probably deleted it. If you wanted to keep
your old ports tree, you're outof luck without having a backup.
Otherwise:
csup -L2 /path/to/ports-supfile
This is cvsup, correct?
Or use portsnap, or whatever you're comfy with.
I've tried fetching a new INDEX, done a pkgdb -Fu, but nothing seems to
work.
pkgdb -F does nothing? No errors, warnings? Could be your /var/db/pkg is
damaged as well, if it's the same disk.
pkgdb -F gives the following:
host# pkgdb -F
---> Checking the package registry database
host#
I'll look at using the other methods. Is there any way I can hand parse
through the info under /usr/ports to determined everything I have installed?
Thanks,
Patrick
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