Hi, The poser went off while I was installing packages ( awesome ) and after the system came up it is behaving strangely printing junk characters on the xterm for pkg_* related commands
$ pkg_info Package database already locked... awaiting release... ^C $ pkg_info cairo-1.8.8p0 vector graphics library gettext-0.17p0 GNU gettext glib2-2.22.4 general-purpose utility library glitz-0.5.6p2 OpenGL image compositing library jpeg-7 IJG's JPEG compression utilities libconfuse-2.6 configuration file parser library libgamin-0.1.10 file and directory monitoring system libiconv-1.13p0 character set conversion library libid3tag-0.15.1bp~=grqly\^g...@f5x'/H9/0S'u,N_c*Okvm\9?q ky$xZ A!Uj}'.`.O.xf<'. [|(9NW&`kJ/'yk^[[?1;2clibungif-4.1.4p1 tools and library routines for working with GIF images partial-bzip2-1.0.5 block-sorting file compressor, unencumbered pcre-7.9 perl-compatible regular expression library png-1.2.41 library for manipulating PNG images $ 1;2c I cannot install new packages du to these errors. $ sudo pkg_add awesome No pkgname in packing-list for jpeg-7 No pkgname in packing-list for libid3tag-0.15.1bp3 awesome-2.3.6p0:libconfuse-2.6: ok (4 to go) Error from ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/amd64/python-2.5.4p3.tgz: ftp: -: short write 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection. Error reading: Inappropriate ioctl for device at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageRepository.pm line 466. Can't find CONTENTS from ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/amd64/python-2.5.4p3.tgz awesome-2.3.6p0:libungif-4.1.4p1: ok (5 to go) Can't install tiff-3.8.2p5 because of libraries |library jpeg.63.0 not found | not found anywhere Direct dependencies for tiff-3.8.2p5 resolve to: jpeg-7 Full dependency tree is jpeg-7 ^Cawesome-2.3.6p0:bzip2-1.0.5|*************************** | 53%Adjusting sha for /usr/local/lib/libbz2.a from en1zzSDX29s+NtyH1y6nGsd5Qn3VxPR4RinW6EdOODs= to pEf3xIsw+uUu3lbmqiHancxdlp8+Wo+6//wvBt4VkgY= --- python-2.5.4p3 ------------------- Can't install python-2.5.4p3: bad package So I tried to delete all packages but it also gets stuck afte printing these junk on screen :-( $ cd /var/packages/ $ rm -rf * $sudo pkg_delete cairo gettext glib2 glitz jpeg libconfuse libgamin libiconv libungif partial-bzip2 pcre png < Unknown element: @A oFG" }j6ZWKFD)B7 Ge_F1Qq.Hq4gZ4>,VlX2s,.? mWST/[@<QQ-Sit{H/!_qW2tl B1a3[?SK 1P What to do now? :-( thanks :-) --Siju
