2013-04-02 11:08, Ronald F. Guilmette skrev:
[[ 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?
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Are you using pkg? If so the command should be pkg version without the
underscore.
/Leslie
PS: Your private mail address bounces. I've tried two different SMTP
Servers!
<r...@tristatelogic.com>: host server1.tristatelogic.com[69.62.255.118] said:
550 5.7.1 <mx1.bjare.net[212.31.160.3]>: Client host rejected:
bjare.net is
BLACKLISTED - Use http://www.tristatelogic.com/contact.html (in
reply to
RCPT TO command)
<<< 550 5.7.1 <c-4-202-233-83.cust.bredband2.com[83.233.202.4]>: Client
host rejected: cust.bredband2.com is BLACKLISTED - Use
http://www.tristatelogic.com/contact.html
550 5.1.1 <r...@tristatelogic.com>... User unknown
<<< 554 5.5.1 Error: no valid recipients
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