Trevor Harmon wrote:
> I'm no longer able to run selfupdate for some reason. All other  
> commands appear to be working fine.
> 
> When I do "fink selfupdate", the following command is executed:
> 
> /usr/bin/su unknown -c "rsync ..."
> 
> where "..." is a long list of parameters to rsync. This results in  
> "### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1".
> 
> If I type the command directly, I get "su: Sorry", as if I had  
> entered the wrong password, but I know I'm entering it correctly.

Which one? Do you have a real user with account name "unknown" on your 
machine?

Check the owner of the directory /sw/fink/10.4 (or whatever dist you are 
updating), using "ls -l /sw/fink". That's the one fink is using as user 
name for the su command. If the directory is owned by a user id that has 
no account on your machine, you'll see the kind of error you described.

-- 
Martin

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