The original Changelog file is /sw/fink/Changelog, and for some reason you aren't able to create .new.Changelog .
What do your permissions and ownership look like for /sw/fink and /sw/fink/Changelog? For comparison mine are: drwxr-xr-x 13 hansen admin 398 Feb 21 10:54 fink -rw-r--r-- 1 hansen admin 1163 Jan 15 17:10 ChangeLog -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > Hello. > > The other lines were more of what I included in the e-mail. There were no > errors on any of those lines. > > I also tried running "sudo fink selfupdate" from the /sw directory instead > of my home directory and I get the same problem. I've got over 500 MB free > on my partition (I only use one). Alexander (thanks for the reply, btw) > suggested I just remove the offending file, in my case .new.ChangeLog. > Problem is that it's nowhere to be found. I did a "find /sw -name > .new.ChangeLog" and it didn't show up anything. I also did a find from main > (/) and didn't find the file. Strange. This is my first problem with fink > being a user for many months now. Odd. Any more stabs, ideas, suggestions, > ...? :-) > > Thanks again. > > Jeff > > > > ---------- > > From: Chris Devers > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:25 AM > > To: Hester, Jeffrey W. > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate" > > > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > > > > > [snip snip snip] > > > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm2-2.4.3-1.patch > > > > > > --other dists removed by me in this e-mail-- > > > > ...did any of the snipped lines look like errors, or was it more stuff > > like what you included? > > > > > cvs server: Updating . > > > P ChangeLog > > > cvs [update aborted]: cannot open .new.ChangeLog: Permission denied > > > ### su failed, exit code 1 > > > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > > > [pcwrplap:~] hester% > > > > Hmm. You're running this from your home directory? What are the > > permissions on it <stab in the dark />? Is there much space left on the > > partition that contains your home directory <stab II />? Can you find a > > file -- possibly in your home directory, maybe /sw/fink/dists or /sw or > > something like that -- named .new.Changelog, and if you can (I see no such > > file on my system so far...) what are it's permissions <stab III />? > > > > > > -- > > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
