Thank you Ryan, 

I’ve been through previous tickets and so far didn't find any other way to do 
so, but I just wanted to get this confirmed by people who understand better 
than I do. 
Thanks again for your answer
Gael 



> Le 28 mars 2020 à 11:30, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 27, 2020, at 17:07, Gael Arnaud wrote:
> 
>> Am facing an error with the following message each time I try to install a 
>> new port 
>> 
>> Error: rev-upgrade failed: sqlite error: database disk image is malformed 
>> (11) while executing query: SELECT id, path FROM registry.files WHERE active 
>> = '1' AND binary IS NULL
>> Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
>> 
>> I Guess, I need to uninstall and reinstall macport, but before doing such a 
>> drastic step, I wanted to be sure there were no other ways to avoid this 
>> long and fastidious process.. 
> 
> There have been a few previous reports of this, and yes, in those cases, 
> uninstalling and reinstalling was necessary, since there isn't a known way to 
> uncorrupt a corrupted database. You could wait and see if somebody else has a 
> better suggestion but I'm not sure there is one.
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55942
> 
> SQLite is very old and well-tested software. On good hardware it should not 
> corrupt databases, so the corruption could indicate a hardware problem, such 
> as with your disk or memory. Or, if you are running in a virtual machine and 
> the VM crashed or was turned off unexpectedly, it could indicate that the VM 
> does not properly guarantee that writes to the virtual disk are propagated to 
> the physical disk immediately.
> 
> http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Corrupted-database-On-tree-page-76852-cell-303-Rowid-18741471-out-of-order-td104891.html
> 

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