You legend Shawn!! Thanks.

Its working now.

There is one other 0 size Manifest that I'll do the same to.

Appreciate all your help.

Cheers

Andrew

Shawn Walker wrote:
> Andrew Latham wrote:
>> Shawn,
>>
>> ls -lh 
>> /var/pkg/pkg/SUNWdesktop-search/0.5.11%2C5.11-0.111%3A20090331T075327Z/manifest
>>  
>>
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-04-08 11:55 
>> /var/pkg/pkg/SUNWdesktop-search/0.5.11%2C5.11-0.111%3A20090331T075327Z/manifest
>>  
>>
>>
>> The file is empty.
>>
>> How do I fix this?
>
> Ah ha; so the problem is likely that the manifest was truncated.
>
> So:
>
> 1) perform an uninstall:
> pfexec pkg uninstall SUNWdesktop-search
>
> 2) remove the manifest file:
> pfexec rm -f 
> /var/pkg/pkg/SUNWdesktop-search/0.5.11%2C5.11-0.111%3A20090331T075327Z/manifest
>  
>
>
> 3) reinstall the package:
> pfexec pkg install SUNWdesktop-search
>
> (this should cause the manifest to get downloaded again)
>
> 4) hope that none of your other manifests are in this condition
>
> You can check with:
>
> find /var/pkg/pkg -size 0 -name "manifest"
>
> In the future this will be solved by a number of changes, but for now, 
> this should get you going again.
>
> Cheers,

-- 
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