Re: "unable to completely remove directory" during deinstall

2009-04-22 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Richard DeLaurell wrote: This is undoubtedly a very "newbie" question, but I have seen this type of error a few times recently: pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/directory.name' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is inco

Re: "unable to completely remove directory" during deinstall

2009-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) It occurs at the end of a "deinstall" as a matter of updating a port "by hand". What is the proper procedure to correct this? Run "pkgdb -F"? Rm the offending files/dirs by hand? Both? check what

Re: "unable to completely remove directory" during deinstall

2009-04-22 Thread Richard DeLaurell
> What port are you referencing? The error has occurred with a few recently; the latest was compiz yesterday. I was going from 0.6.2_2 to 0.7.8_1--sorry, I did not save the exact output of the error. The new compiz ran okay until I logged out my x-session and then tried to log back in. X froze

Re: "unable to completely remove directory" during deinstall

2009-04-22 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:16:22 -0500 Richard DeLaurell wrote: >This is undoubtedly a very "newbie" question, but I have seen this >type of error >a few times recently: > >pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/directory.name' >pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the p

"unable to completely remove directory" during deinstall

2009-04-22 Thread Richard DeLaurell
This is undoubtedly a very "newbie" question, but I have seen this type of error a few times recently: pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/directory.name' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) It occurs at the end of a "d