pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format
Yesterday I moved from 6.2-RELENG to 7-RELENG and everything worked fine (though I do have a few questions about mergemaster that I'll ask later). As suggested on this list, I started to rebuild all of my ports. I started with portupgrade -f '2007-11-01 12:00' and all seemed to go well until I realized that I should have added -- batch to that. So I interrupted the process and restarted with portupgrade -f --batch '2007-11-01 12:00' This has been running apparently just fine overnight, but then I noticed that after building each port, they didn't get installed because I was getting an error like /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument So I stopped things again and tried to fix pkgdb.db $ sudo pkgdb -v -F --- Checking the package registry database /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument $ sudo file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte- order) What should I do now. I suppose that my problem was with interrupting the portupgrade the first time 'round. But is there anything I can do to fix this. -j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Yesterday I moved from 6.2-RELENG to 7-RELENG and everything worked fine (though I do have a few questions about mergemaster that I'll ask later). As suggested on this list, I started to rebuild all of my ports. I started with portupgrade -f '2007-11-01 12:00' and all seemed to go well until I realized that I should have added --batch to that. So I interrupted the process and restarted with portupgrade -f --batch '2007-11-01 12:00' This has been running apparently just fine overnight, but then I noticed that after building each port, they didn't get installed because I was getting an error like /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument So I stopped things again and tried to fix pkgdb.db $ sudo pkgdb -v -F --- Checking the package registry database /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument $ sudo file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) What should I do now. I suppose that my problem was with interrupting the portupgrade the first time 'round. But is there anything I can do to fix this. I've seen no responses, is this still a problem? First off, what does `file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db` report? And have you looked at pkgdb(5)? I'm only guessing, but maybe `pkgdb -aF` for starters, and maybe you'll have to do `pkgdb -u`. YMMV, and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- We totally deny the allegations, and we're trying to identify the allegators. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format
On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: $ sudo pkgdb -v -F --- Checking the package registry database /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument $ sudo file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) I've seen no responses, I got a response off list suggesting that I simply remove pkgdb.db and call portupgrade which would rebuild it. I tried that (well I renamed pkgdb.db) and things seemed to go well for a few seconds, but portupgrade then barfed at the portsdb.db file. So I fixed that with portsdb -F and then running portupgrade seems to have done the right thing and all is well at the moment. First off, what does `file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db` report? You must have missed that I had that information in my original post. And have you looked at pkgdb(5)? I'm only guessing, but maybe `pkgdb -aF` for starters, I also had the output of pkgdb -v -F in my original post. But I do see that the formating of my post made that difficult to see. Anyway, thank you for your help. Everything seems to be going well at the moment. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
