Re: After a 2-year hiatus, sudo fink selfupdate fails

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On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 12:42=E2=80=AFPM Hanspeter Niederstrasser <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/24/25 8:55 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> > My fink version is 0.45.6 and my macos is Catalina, 10.15.7.
> >
> > I haven't used fink since July 2023.
> >
> > But i would like to install a certain fink package, so i tried to run
> > sudo fink selfupdate
> >
> > I actually tried 3 or 4 times over the last 24 hours.
> >
> > Every time it fails during rsyncing, and the error is the same: code 10=
.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help or information or suggestions on how to deal wi=
th
> > the situation, and thanks in advance.
>
> Welcome back. I think the rsync mirror is currently down. You can switch
> method by running `fink selfupdate-git`, which will switch you (you can
> just run `fink selfupdate` afterwards). If you don't have a github
> account, you can just skip the questions when it asks for your username.
>
> Hanspeter
>
> --
> "Of the 22 schools in the top 20..."
>    --Unknown
>

Thanks so much Hanspeter for your help and advice.

Per your suggestion, i did run 'sudo fink selfupdate-git'.

It asked for 'the user login name that should be used'.

I replied with 'danh1', without the quotes, and i'm pretty sure this is
correct because i queried github with 'what is my account name' to get it
right.

fink then failed (exit status 1) with the message 'The user "danh1" does
not exist on the system.'

So i tried 'sudo fink selfupdate-git' again, and this time i just hit the
carriage return (as you wrote) and it went off and did a huge amount of
compilation (33k lines).

It exited with status code 0, but it did print a message that 'Some index
files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.=
'

I then tried 'sudo fink selfupdate'.  This ran quickly, and exited with the
same message (still status 0) and recommended running scanpackages.  So i
ran 'sudo fink scanpackages', which was similar: 0 exit status, but a
warning.

In all cases, the problem seems to center around: 'Failed to fetch
http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64=
/Packages
 404 Not Found [IP: 104.21.19.95 80]'

Could this just be a temporary situation, and i should just try again
later?   (Is this just another manifestation of the rsync mirror being
down?)  That would be my default plan.

Or maybe there's something else i should do?

Thanks again for your help!!

dan

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote g=
mail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 29,=
 2025 at 12:42=E2=80=AFPM Hanspeter Niederstrasser &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:fi=
[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><block=
quote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1=
px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 11/24/25 8:55 PM, Dan Hitt w=
rote:<br>
&gt; My fink version is 0.45.6 and my macos is Catalina, 10.15.7.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I haven&#39;t used fink since July 2023.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; But i would like to install a certain fink package, so i tried to run<=
br>
&gt; sudo fink selfupdate<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I actually tried 3 or 4 times over the last 24 hours.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Every time it fails during rsyncing, and the error is the same: code 1=
0.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I&#39;d appreciate any help or information or suggestions on how to de=
al with<br>
&gt; the situation, and thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
Welcome back. I think the rsync mirror is currently down. You can switch <b=
r>
method by running `fink selfupdate-git`, which will switch you (you can <br=
>
just run `fink selfupdate` afterwards). If you don&#39;t have a github <br>
account, you can just skip the questions when it asks for your username.<br=
>
<br>
Hanspeter<br>
<br>
-- <br>
&quot;Of the 22 schools in the top 20...&quot;<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0--Unknown<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks so much H=
anspeter for your help and advice.</div><div><br></div><div>Per your sugges=
tion, i did run &#39;sudo fink selfupdate-git&#39;.</div><div><br></div><di=
v>It asked for &#39;the user login name that should be used&#39;.</div><div=
><br></div><div>I replied with &#39;danh1&#39;, without the quotes, and i&#=
39;m pretty sure this is correct because i queried github with &#39;what is=
 my account name&#39; to get it right.</div><div><br></div><div>fink then f=
ailed (exit status 1) with the message &#39;The user &quot;danh1&quot; does=
 not exist on the system.&#39;</div><div><br></div><div>So i tried &#39;sud=
o fink selfupdate-git&#39; again, and this time i just hit the carriage ret=
urn (as you wrote) and it went off and did a huge amount of compilation (33=
k lines).</div><div><br></div><div>It exited with status code 0, but it did=
 print a message that &#39;Some index files failed to download, they have b=
een ignored, or old ones used instead.&#39;</div><div><br></div><div>I then=
 tried &#39;sudo fink selfupdate&#39;.=C2=A0 This ran quickly, and exited w=
ith the same message (still status 0) and recommended running scanpackages.=
=C2=A0 So i ran &#39;sudo fink scanpackages&#39;, which was similar: 0 exit=
 status, but a warning.</div><div><br></div><div>In all cases, the problem =
seems to center around: &#39;Failed to fetch <a href=3D"http://bindist.fink=
mirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages">http://b=
indist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Package=
s</a> =C2=A0404 Not Found [IP: 104.21.19.95 80]&#39;</div><div><br></div><d=
iv>Could this just be a temporary situation, and i should just try again la=
ter?=C2=A0 =C2=A0(Is this just another manifestation of the rsync mirror be=
ing down?)=C2=A0 That would be my default plan.</div><div><br></div><div>Or=
 maybe there&#39;s something else i should do?</div><div><br></div><div>Tha=
nks again for your help!!</div><div><br></div><div>dan</div><div><br></div>=
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>

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