[OmniOS-discuss] strange local repository corruption

[Doug Hughes]

Didn't work. still 0. I ended up copying the repo from another machine 
built at the same time and then doing a refresh.


On 5/6/2015 11:00 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
> pkgrepo rebuild -s <repo-path>
>
> Dan
>
> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
>
>> On May 6, 2015, at 9:53 PM, Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:
>>
>> this is a relatively fresh install and not much going on on the machine, and I see somehow that the pkg repo got corrupted relatively recently on r14
>>
>> t at x4275-3-15-20:/usr/local/orca-r535# pkg refresh
>>
>> An error was encountered while attempting to read image state information
>> to perform the requested operation.  Details follow:
>>
>> Catalog file '/var/pkg/state/installed/catalog.attrs' is invalid.
>> Use 'pkgrepo rebuild' to create a new package catalog.
>> root at x4275-3-15-20:/usr/local/orca-r535#
>> ot at x4275-3-15-20:/usr/local/orca-r535# pkgrepo rebuild
>> pkgrepo rebuild: A package repository location must be provided using -s.
>> Try `pkgrepo --help or -?' for more information.
>> root at x4275-3-15-20:/usr/local/orca-r535# ls -l /var/pkg/state/known/
>> total 2
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May  6 01:50 catalog.attrs
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May  6 01:50 catalog.base.C
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May  6 01:50 catalog.dependency.C
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May  6 01:50 catalog.summary.C
>> root at x4275-3-15-20:/usr/local/orca-r535#
>>
>> weird huh? any easy way to recover from this?
>>
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