> nice try, bad news :o(
> 
> snail# whoami
> root
> snail# pkg_admin rebuild
> pkg_admin: cannot open pkgdb: Undefined error: 0

i just start wondering what does pkgdb refer to. is it file

pkgdb.byfile.db

or something else? i run all the utilities as root and permissions seems 
to be also ok:

drwxr-xr-x  22 root  wheel  512 Nov 25 16:13 var
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  512 Nov 25 13:13 db
drwxr-xr-x  139 root  wheel  4096 Jan  7 15:31 pkg

the rebuild should allow rebuilding the whole database according to the 
contents of the directories in the /var/db/pkg.
i tried to move pkgdb.byfile.db away and run pkg_admin rebuild again, 
but again no effect, same error message.

-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     0 Jan  7 15:31 pkgdb.byfile.db
something happens - pkgdb.byfile.db has now zero size...

but anyway, thanks for help, ben.

lubos
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