> On Nov 13, 2015, at 07:01, Robert Wohlhueter <bobwohlhue...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Fink Users,
>
> Running fink under MacOS 10.10.5 (on a MacBookPro):
> I ran`sudo fink selfupdate successfully, but when I then try
> `sudo fink update-all`, I get an error message:
>
> [summer-3:Contents/MacOS]14 bobw% sudo fink update-all
> Scanning package description files
> not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1887.
>
Don’t use “sudo” with fink under normal circumstances. fink will acquire
elevated privileges for itself.
> And the update terminates. Attempting to update just a single package
> generates the same message.
>
> The update procedure to OS 10.11 (as featured on finkproject.org) is
> inappropriate, as I am still on 10.10. But the `fink cleanup --deb` seemed
> interesting, so I tried it: got the same error message.
>
> Here's a snippet of Services.pm around line 1887:
>
> if (Storable::store($ref, $tmp)) {
> chmod 0644, $tmp; # Should be world-readable
> unless (rename $tmp, $file) {
> print_breaking_stderr("Error: could not activate temporary file
> $tmp: $!");
> return 0;
> }
>
> The "Services.pm" file is owned by root, but is world-readable. So, I'm
> clueless as to what's going on! Maybe I'm looking at the wrong line
> numbering. I wold be happy to attach my whole "Services.pm", if that would
> help.
It really wouldn’t. We all have the same file. The issue is that $ref isn’t
being set earlier as a reference for some reason—ideally we would have a
human-readable message, but this problem seems not to come up very often.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Bob Wohlhueter
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Try “fink reinstall fink”, and if that doesn’t work, try running “sudo
/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl”.
Typically errors involving the Storable database are from binary
incompatibility due to changing Perl versions (e.g. on OS upgrade), and the the
postinstall.pl script does some rebuilding.
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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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