In article , Gary wrote:
>My OBSD 3.7 panic n hanged when I was adding packages with pkg_add. After
>reboot I can no longer add any new packages nor I could delete the packages
>with pkg_delete. Attempting to add a package yields the following errors:
>
>pkg_add -v mutt-1.5.8i.tgz
>parsing mutt-1.5.8i
>No pkgname in packing-list for nmap-3.81-no_x11
>Use of unintialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
>/usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PkgCf1.pm line 42.
>No pkgname in packing-list for
>Use of unintialized value in hash element at
>/usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PkgCf1.pm line 83.
>No pkgname in packing-list for pcre-4.5
>Use of unintialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
>/usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PkgCf1.pm line 42.
>No pkgname in packing-list for
>Use of unintialized value in hash element at
>/usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PkgCf1.pm line 83.
>Error: has no definition
>
>So now what should I do to restore my pkg_add, pkg_delete?
>Thanks very much!

Nice ****-up.

I'm afraid you /var/db/pkg is totally garbled by this point. Your best
bet is to wipe it out, wipe /usr/local as well, and start anew.

The `panic n hang' scenario is about the only case in which you may end up
with this kind of issues.

There are no self-repair capabilities in pkg_add to deal with this yet,
sorry.

never been so unlucky in these 4 years... lol

Not sure if it will help, but I suppose I will back-up the whole /var/db/pkg
from now on
before adding some new packages. (of coz after fixing the whole thing
first... *_*)

Gary.

> Nice ****-up.
>
> I'm afraid you /var/db/pkg is totally garbled by this point. Your best
> bet is to wipe it out, wipe /usr/local as well, and start anew.
>
> The `panic n hang' scenario is about the only case in which you may end up
> with this kind of issues.
>
> There are no self-repair capabilities in pkg_add to deal with this yet,
> sorry.