Friday, August 23, 2019

Re: pkg_add -u fails on nonexistant package

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:40:28AM -0500, Jordon wrote:
> Thanks - that fixed it. I figured there was some cleanup or maintenance that needed to be done - i just didn't know how to do it. In running pkg_check, i did get a lot of these:

Packages normally don't need maintenance. What you're seeing looks like a
very unclean unmount at some point or a failing disk.

pkg_check will recover the best it can from these. It was originally written
for other developers, who tend to crash their testing kernels a lot...
shouldn't happen THAT much for non kernel developers/crash-test bunnies.

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