[[ I asked about this problem on the -questions list a couple of days ago, but didn't get any relevant replies, so I'm trying again here on the -ports list. Apologies if you see this twice. ]]
A couple of days ago my system just simply decided to power itself off (twice) whilst I was in the middle of doing "portupgrade -a". I have since learned that the unscheduled and unexpected power offs were due to a CPU cooling problem. I believe that I have that problem in hand now. Separately however, and probably as result of the sudden power offs, when I run pkg_version now I am getting many messages relating to various of my installed packages, all having the following general form: pkg_version: the package info for package 'PKG' is corrupt where `PKG' is the name of some package or another that I have installed. I have at least 6 such messages for different packages I have installed... and probably more. I googled around a bit and did not find any good explanation for the above error or, more importantly, what to do about it. I gather however that my package data base has become corrupted. OK, so how does one rebuild that from scratch? Please don't tell me that I have to reinstall every bleedin' port from scratch! Regards, rfg P.S. Oh! And by the way, I just happen to have made a full system backup quite recently. Do I just simply need to get the entire contents of /var/db/pkg/ from that backup, and then do "rm -fr /var/db/pkg" and then copy my backup copy of /var/db/pkg to the real /var/db/pkg ? Will that fix the problem? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
