2012/6/23 Marc Espie <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 05:23:14PM -0700, Frans Haarman wrote: >> hi ports@ >> >> after upgrading to the 5.2 snapshot I keep getting errors with pkg_add -u. >> >> No pkgname in packing-list for sdl-mixer-1.2.11p0 >> No pkgname in packing-list for partial-jdk-1.7.0.00v0 >> No pkgname in packing-list for einstein-2.0p0 >> Warning: couldn't read packing-list from installed package tel >> File /var/db/pkg/tel/+CONTENTS does not exist >> Error: tel missing from installation >> OpenBSD::Requiring: writing /var/db/pkg/tel/+REQUIRING: No such file >> or directory at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/OldLibs.pm line 196 >> # > > There's obviously some fucked up stuff in /var/db/pkg. > > Have a look under the lost+found directory of the partition that holds > /var/db/pkg, I strongly suspect it's not empty. > > Why do people always tell us the NOT IMPORTANT stuff ? > > In the current case, it is fairly obvious your file system crashed at > some point. A panic, lost power somewhen ? > > Well, there is inconsistent information in there. Garbage in, garbage out, > don't expect pkg_add to make sense of it. > > > Run pkg_check, figure out the extent of your fsck
you're right..... Its my netbook and it crashes every once in a while from me not shutting it down properly before the battery dies. I never even considered fs problems because I have never had them on openbsd! . Thanks, Frans
