corrupted database

mikie mike mikiemike600 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 01:10:52 PDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As my Lion freezes very often
>> (https://discussions.apple.com/message/15676049#15676049) my MacPorts
>> database got corrupted somehow during installation of gtk2 i guess.
>> Now I can't continue to install any ports (log from installation of
>> gtk2 below). This is obviously what is described here:
>> https://svn.macports.org/ticket/24858 but I can't find any instruction
>> how to recovery.
> Unfortunately I'm not aware of a command that is "rebuild my database,
> and also propagate it with all the old installations I already had
> installed" (if there is, somebody please let me know :) )

Unfortunatelly you didn't post this message to mailing list.
Taking above sentence, I assume you intended to, so I am sending back to group.

> When it happened to me recently I ended up basically deleting my
> databases, then having to "force reinstall" everything from that point
> on, so I'd almost recommend just starting from scratch.

Cool enough if it is going to recovery without any errors this way.
Would be nice to have more elegant solution, though. :)

Thanks,
Mike


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