Re: pkg_add failed for Perl (during a pkg_chk -u)

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978%infinito.it@localhost>]

Apparently the trick worked!
I removed the perl directory since it was the only one without the
+CONTENTS file, then run a pkg_admin check and then a pkg_chk -u and
pkg_admin -rebuild and it seems ok.
However I did not have a crash of the system. The only thing I note is
that the system seems to be really slow on building readme and index
(I posted another thread for this since I don't believe it is
related).

Thanks,
Luca

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Luca Ferrari <fluca1978%infinito.it@localhost> writes:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not provide much more help to me:
>>
>> # pkg_admin -v check
>> pkg_admin: can't open /var/db/pkg/perl-5.14.2nb5/+CONTENTS: No such
>> file or directory
>
> Basically your installation is damaged.  Did you have a crash?
>
> So first, make a backup :-) Then, the following may help, but you may
> end up with no packages.
>
> Look in /var/db/pkg.   If you find directories with no +CONTENTS, then
> rm -rf them.  This removes the record of the package being installed.
> Keep a list of packages that you do this to.
>
> Run "pkg_admin check".  Keep looking for broken /var/db/pkg dirs and
> removing them.  pkg_admin rebuild-tree and pkg_admin rebuild may be
> helpful as well (you may find that you have packages listed in
> +REQUIRED_BY that are not installed).
>
> Then, install pkg_rolling-replace, read the man page, and read the
> archives for all the discussion about it :-).   (I find that 'make
> update' is too scary.)  Do 'make package' for packages that you removed
> the db directory for.
>
> Or, make a list of all the packages you want, and
>   back up /usr/pkg/etc
>   rm -rf /usr/pkg
>   rm -rf /var/db/pkg/*
>   start over building  what you want.
>
>