Re: [Fink-beginners] fink update is failing

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.core
Organization Fink Core Team
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/19/12 4:24 PM, Noah wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> thanks for you continued support. :)
> 
>>
>> Hmm...let's go back to -core with this.
>>
>> Just to confirm:  you ran my "find ..." after already having run "fink
>> index --full", correct?
> 
> 
> 
> yes.
> 
> glitchinthematrix 16:22:40 ~ $ fink index --full
> Password:
> Scanning package description files
> glitchinthematrix 16:22:49 ~ $ find /sw/var/lib/fink | xargs file | grep
> Storable | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq
> glitchinthematrix 16:23:06 ~ $
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> And what do you get from:
>>
>> ls -l /sw/var/lib/fink
>>
>> ls -ld /sw/var/lib/fink
>>
>> ?
>>
> 
> 
> glitchinthematrix 16:23:06 ~ $ ls -l /sw/var/lib/fink
> total 608
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin   136B Aug 19 16:22 finkinfodb/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin     0B Aug 12 23:16 index.db.lock
> drwxr-xr-x  14 root  admin   476B Jul  9 00:35 path-prefix-10.6/
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin   136B Jul  9 00:35 path-prefix-g++-3.3/
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin   136B Jul  9 00:35 path-prefix-g++-4.0/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102B Jun 26  2008 prebound/
> -rw-------   1 root  admin     0B Aug 18 07:06 proxies.db.XAfXq
> -rw-------   1 root  admin     0B Aug 12 23:16 proxies.db.ekrCK
> -rw-------   1 root  admin     0B Aug 18 07:06 proxies.db.j8n5i
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin   304K Nov  4  2011 scanpackages.db
> glitchinthematrix 16:23:29 ~ $ ls -ld /sw/var/lib/fink
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root  admin   408B Aug 18 07:06 /sw/var/lib/fink/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Noah
> 

The permissions look normal.  A couple of things stand out, however:

1)  You're missing /sw/var/lib/fink/index.db, and that's probably what
is giving the errors you've been seeing.

2) The lack of "Storable" files under /sw/var/lib/fink may be a
consequence of 1).  My initial thought was that you somehow were storing
cached data from the wrong Perl version but this is probably not the case.

I'm not exactly sure how to proceed at this point.  Perhaps try removing
/sw/var/lib/fink/index.db.lock and then try "fink index -f" again.
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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