Subject: Re: broken package database?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Frank Knappe <knappe@tu-harburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/10/2002 19:26:21
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > root@trinity# pkg_info
> >
> > pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
> > kdebase-2.2.2nb1    adjustkernel-1.4    Generate a kernel config
> >
> > What can I do?
> 
> Hard to tell, a "ls -la /var/db/pkg/kdebase*" would help.

root@trinity# ls -ls /var/db/pkg/kdebase-2.2.2*
total 0
0 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Sep  9 00:03 +CONTENTS
0 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Sep  9 23:11 +REQUIRED_BY

> For a start, a "touch /var/db/pkg/kdebase-2.2.2nb1/+COMMENT" might work.

I followed the suggestion of Manuel and deletet this directory and made
a make install:

[a lot of output deleted]
===> Registering installation for kdebase-2.2.2nb1
pkg_create: Overwriting /usr/X11R6/lib/kde2/libkcm_kio.la - pkg 
kdebase-2.2.2nb1 bogus/conflicting?

[a lot of similar lines deleted]

pkg_create: Overwriting 
/usr/X11R6/share/kde/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/Xpdf.ad - pkg 
kdebase-2.2.2nb1 bogus/conflicting?
Segmentation fault - core dumped
*** Error code 139

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.


Not looking good, isn't it?


Ciao , Frank .