Alexander,
Thanks for your advice. I'm not entirely out of the woods yet. After
three rounds of "selfupdate", "scanpackages" (recommended during
"selfupdate"), and "update-all", I still get error messages, but
different after each iteration.
Yet when I look at "list intalled" the collection of installed items
seems complete; I've been using fink for years, have a sizable
colleection of packages, and the ones that I use most often are, at
least, al there.
But when I test them out (X11 dependent ones), I get know graphics
output. I suspected XQuartz, and so updated it to v.2.7.8 (Im running
Mac OS 10.10.5). Now that new XQuartz program won't start! Of course,
that's not your problem (though I'd appreciate any wisdom on XQuarz
compatibility issues).
I don't want you assistance to go unanswered. But, as my highschool
Latin teacher used to say: "Non progretti regretti est".
Bob Wohlhueter
On 11/13/15 12:04 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Nov 13, 2015, at 07:01, Robert Wohlhueter
<bobwohlhue...@earthlink.net <mailto: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
<http://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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