On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Regardless, it's not really relevant any more (apart from a purely
> speculative perspective) as I have a much larger problem. I tried a
> reboot to see if there were any conf files that should be read in or
> something, and it stalled at Starting Directory Services. I'd read about
> this problem, so I checked system.log, netinfo.log and so on, and
> something is seriously broken somewhere (maybe this is why fink also
> appears broken, who knows).
...anyone reading the story so far knows :)
As Max noted, the problem you described ran much deeper than anything you
should see merely as the result of tinkering with your dotfiles. You can
cause problems by doing that, yeah, but it shouldn't have messed up Fink
like that and it *definately* shouldn't have led to something like this.
You're seeing the symptoms of a deeper problem here. For lack of a clearer
idea of what exactly went wrong, reinstalling just might be necessary. I'm
almost wondering if this is some kind of hardware failure. What kind of
Mac are you running, exactly?
> Anyway, to answer your orignal question, Max, the way I saw that the
> packages appeared to be forgotten by fink was by entering dselect, and
> looking in the [S]elect section, where it had all packages as "not
> installed"...
I don't understand dselect well enough to shed much light here, but it
does seem to be pretty finnicky. It seems like I've gotten it to try to
uninstall everything ("nooooooooo!..."). Maybe it's easy to mess it up in
such a way that it thinks you have nothing installed in the first place.
A better indicator would have been simply looking at what you have in
/sw/bin (etc), and what 'fink list' or 'fink --installed' or whatever.
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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