On 3/17/05 4:20 PM, "Daniel Macks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:47:56PM -0600, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>> On 3/17/05 2:18 PM, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Mar 17, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I ran the selfupdate command a few days ago and now whenever I try
>>>> to do anything with Fink, I get:
>>>>
>>>> Failed: The package full name 'fondu-030428-1' is not allowed to be
>>>> used more than once. at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 142.
>>>>
>>>> Followed by the prompt at the terminal. It does not want to do
>>>> anything now except give the above warning. It looks to me that
>>>> in the selfupdate process, something has become corrupted. I tried
>>>> looking at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Package.pm line 142, but it is a Perl
>>>> script file and does not contain a list of files.
>>>
>>> try
>>>
>>> sudo rm -rf /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/fondu.info
>>>
>>> and then do another selfupdate---that's the most likely thing to be
>>> corrupted.
>>
>> I tried your suggestion and it attempted to do a selfupdate but then
>> when it tried to update the database, it gave the same warning. It then did
>> the same as before (just gives the warning).
>
> If you rm that file, does 'fink index' work? If so, then we have a
> problem with that file on the server. That's a new error in fink that
> protects against formerly-silently-broken behavior, but looks like the
> wording of it isn't so clear.
>
> dan
Hi Dan,
The index command does indeed work, but after issuing it, I still cannot
do 'fink list'. It gives the same fondu error. Thanks anyway
Walter
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