Re: pkg/38166: crash in pkg_info

[David Holland <dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:10:03PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > >    Owing to some assorted lossage I ended up the other day with a
 > >    package directory in /var/db/pkg that contained nothing but a
 > >    core file.
 >  
 >  Can you try the attached patch instead? It should apply to pkgsrc as
 >  well.

With that I get

          :
        esound-0.2.38       The Enlightened sound daemon
        seamonkey-gtk1-1.1.8 Full featured gecko-based browser built with GTK1
        pkg_info: cannot read meta data file +COMMENT: No such file or
        directory
        Exit 2
        # 

which is not entirely desirable in the context of the nightly pkg_info
run, since it's going to cause /etc/security's diffing to think that
half the packages on the system have been removed.

(Also it doesn't say which package is broken.)



 . o O ( Why do I have esound installed? Maybe that's the problem. )

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