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Kristian G Suarez

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Since: Mar 28, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 3:58 pm
Post subject: Is there hope for my system after "portupgrade -a" has failed.
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Hello everyone.

I am a little scared... very scared, actually. I was running
"portupgrade -a" all morning. Then suddenly while eating my lunch the
download for the Mozilla source stalled. Since then I have been staring
at "Receiving mozilla-source-1.6.tar.bz2 (31037452 bytes): 83% (ETA
00:3Cool"... for about an hour. I read in the handbook that inturrupting
your system while running this can ruin it...

"Note: It is important to regularly update the package database using
pkgdb -F to fix inconsistencies, especially when portupgrade asks you
to. Do not abort portupgrade while it is updating the package database,
this will leave you an inconsistent database." - FreeBSD Handbook

What am I supposed to do now? I can't just ^C and start over... Someone
please help me.

Thanks in advance.

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Colin Andrew Percival

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:10 pm
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Kristian G Suarez wrote:
> Since then I have been staring
> at "Receiving mozilla-source-1.6.tar.bz2 (31037452 bytes): 83% (ETA
> 00:3Cool"... for about an hour.
>
> "Do not abort portupgrade while it is updating the package database,
> this will leave you an inconsistent database." - FreeBSD Handbook

This refers to the (short) time when portupgrade says "Updating package
database...", not the entire portupgrade process.

Colin Percival

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Aaron Baugher

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:10 pm
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Colin Andrew Percival writes:

> This refers to the (short) time when portupgrade says "Updating
> package database...", not the entire portupgrade process.

Yeah, I kill portupgrade in the middle of downloads all the time.
Usually it's because I've started installing something and then find I
need to make it stop hammering my modem so I can get some work done
online.


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