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

On 11/11/21 4:16 PM, Edward R Kinney wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:32 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
> Here's the output. Another Fink user also sent me an email that he has the
> same build of catalina 10.15.7 and has no problem, so I'm trying to find
> out what else Apple changed.
> 
> [elhefe:~/Desktop] kinney% pwd
> 
> /Users/kinney/Desktop
> 
> [elhefe:~/Desktop] kinney% printenv SHELL
> 
> /bin/bash
> 
> [elhefe:~/Desktop] kinney%
I've updated my VM to get all the latest updates for 10.15 and Fink 
still works. Can you run 'fink --version' or 'fink list fink' ? Or does 
something that low-level also give the perl error?
Have you edited ~/.bash_profile (or .login, .profile, .bashrc, etc) 
recently? Lastly, in Terminal.app -> Prefs -> General, is it set to open 
the "Default login shell" ? Similarly, in Prefs -> Profiles -> Shell, 
the 'run command' option should be unselected and blank.

One other possibility is that the Perl on your system is somehow broken. 
What's the output of these 3 commands:

/usr/bin/perl5.18 -e 'use Cwd; my $dir = getcwd; print "$dir \n";'
ls -l /System/Library/Perl/5.18/File/Find.pm
md5 /System/Library/Perl/5.18/File/Find.pm

My systems say Find.pm was installed on Aug 2019, even though these VMs 
were created only a couple months ago, so a different modification date 
suggests they've been changed. The md5 command should return 
"3524f07edfa57d8ca33e3f5c6df6a257"

Hanspeter



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