Thank you very much,

maybe it was some kind of silent corruption due to old IDE disk, anyway
pkg_check and then again pkg_add -u fixed all the trouble.
I will keep this in mind, should it happen again.
Have a nice day!


On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 2:52 PM Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 01:01:07PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
> > Hello Folks,
> >
> > I just upgraded a PIII box freshly installed with 6.6 last month.
> > Everything went right with sysupgrade (big kudos do devs!!!!).
> >
> > Problems started when upgrading installed packages, here follows the
> output
> > of pkg_add -uv. What can this be?
>
> Corruption of your filesystem *prior* to running pkg_add -u
>
> Run pkg_check.
>
> >
> adwaita-icon-theme-3.34.3:.libs-pango+.libs1-pango+.libs2-pango+.libs3-pango+.libs4-pango+pango-1.42.4p3->pango-1.44.7p0
> > 't read packing-list from installed package
> >
> \00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00
> > Invalid \0 character in pathname for ftis: /var/db/pkg/\0 at
> > /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackingList.pm line 520.
> > File
> >
> /var/db/pkg/\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00/+CONTENTS
> ...
>
> those are actually fairly obvious error messages.
>

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