On 8/30/05, François MÉMIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all !
> 
> I have run 'fink selfupdate' and got:
> 
> rsync -az -q 
> rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP
> /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
> I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package
> descriptions.
> [...]
> Building Dependency Tree...
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
> ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100
> WARNING: Failure while downloading indexes.Running 'fink scanpackages' may
> fix this.
> W: Couldn't stat source package list file: unstable/main Packages
> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list file: unstable/main Packages
> (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)

"fink scanpackages" is supposed to help with the above problem. 
However these aren't fatal errors.


> done.
> [...]

Maybe the error message for your dpkg build is buried in the "..."  
Post output starting with the last line that looked normal.

> make[2]: execvp: ranlib: Text file busy
> make[2]: *** [libopt.a] Error 127
> make[1]: *** [all-optlib] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 2
> ### execution of make failed, exit code 2
> Removing build lock...
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-dpkg-1.10.21-217
> (Reading database ... 6711 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing fink-buildlock-dpkg-1.10.21-217 ...
> Failed: phase compiling: dpkg-1.10.21-217 failed
> 
> Before reporting any errors, please run "fink selfupdate" and
> try again.
> 
> Then I have tried 'fink scanpackages', and 'fink selfupdate' again.
> But I have always got the same errors msg.
> 
> I don't understand what's going wrong.
> Well is it concerning the server or my own system ?
> 
> Thank you for your help
> Francois 


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