Re: power went off during pk_add and now pkg_tools are useless printing out garbage on screen on 4.7/amd64 SMP

[Otto Moerbeek]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:06:33PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote:

> On Thu, 27 May 2010 14:19:20 +0530
> Siju George <sgeorge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > $ 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
>
> I would rm -rf /usr/local/* /var/db/pkg/* /var/db/pkg/.*
>
> then install packages of your choice again.
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
>       Gregory Edigarov

Watchout, you want to keep the /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults symlink

        -Otto