Re: Latest Catalina updates break self-update and update-all

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On 2021-11-11 10:17, Edward R Kinney wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response; new terminal session in a different
> directory produced same error output unfortunately.
> -Ed
> 
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:09 PM Alexander Hansen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
>>> cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
>>> Information about 11839 packages read in 1 seconds.
>>> No packages to install.
>>> Use of uninitialized value $cwd_untainted in chdir at
>>> /System/Library/Perl/5.18/File/Find.pm line 624.
>>> Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() is deprecated at
>>> /System/Library/Perl/5.18/File/Find.pm line 624.
>>> ************************************
>>> 
>>> If this problem will be fixed with the Big Sur release, I can
>>> wait, I still have functionality of the programs I have already
>>> installed.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Ed
>> 
>> When I’ve gotten errors like that in the past, it was because my
>> shell was sitting in a working directory that got deleted.  Try a
>> new terminal session first.
>> 
>> —akh

What's the output of these commands in a terminal session that's 
failing:

pwd
printenv SHELL

Hanspeter


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