On 05/30/2016 03:42 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On May 30, 2016, at 15:18, Jess H. Brewer <j...@triumf.ca >> <mailto:j...@triumf.ca>> wrote: >> >> On 2016-05-30 12:11 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>>> On May 30, 2016, at 10:55, Jess H. Brewer <j...@triumf.ca >>>> <mailto:j...@triumf.ca>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Over the past week or two I've been running into stalls on downloading. >>>> At first it was just at the stage of getting the new archives for >>>> update-all commands, then it got worse, possibly because each time I >>>> eventually had to CTRL-C out of the operation(s). I tried deleting >>>> various lock files, touching same to recreate them, etc., but this had >>>> no apparent effect. I tried fink fetch-missing to separate downloading >>>> from processing, and it seemed to work, but afterward nothing had >>>> changed. I ran fink configure many times, trying different >>>> repositories, to no effect. Finally I set verbosity to 4 and tried to >>>> run fink cleanup: >>>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> # fink cleanup >>>> Scanning package description files.......... >>>> Information about 9161 packages read in 4 seconds. >>>> Collecting active source filenames... >>>> Obsolete sources deleted from /sw/src: 0 >>>> >>>> Scanning deb collection... >>>> Obsolete deb packages deleted from fink trees: 0 >>>> >>>> Obsolete symlinks deleted: 0 >>>> >>>> /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait --option APT::Clean-Installed=false autoclean >>>> Reading Package Lists... Done >>>> Building Dependency Tree... Done >>>> Obsolete deb packages deleted from apt cache: 0 >>>> >>>> Updating the list of locally available binary packages. >>>> Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary >>>> distribution. >>>> 0% [Working] >>>> _____________________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> ...and there it waits, forever (or at least 24 hrs) without change >>>> (still 0%). So I'm dead in the water. The old fink stuff still works, >>>> as far as I can tell, but I can't make any changes or updates. >>>> >>>> This is probably something really simple and I'm going to come off >>>> looking like a noob, but... HELP! >>>> >>> As far as I know we haven’t added a new binary distribution >>> repository, so there’s really anything to reconfigure which will >>> actually help in this case. It works for me: >>> >>> ... >>> Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution. >>> /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update >>> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages >>> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Release >>> Reading Package Lists... Done >>> Building Dependency Tree… Done >> >> Nope. Hangs as above. >> >>> >>> Maybe try running the command “sudo apt-get-lockwait update” manually >>> to see if that works. Also try “sudo apt-get update”—theoretically >>> both should have the same behavior, but we might as well additional data. >> >> All versions hang the same way. >> >>> Also, what are the contents of your /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file? >>> (Normally apt-get throws an error message promptly when there is a >>> download error, however) >> >> more /sw/etc/apt/sources.list >> # Local modifications should either go above this line, or at the end. >> # >> # Default APT sources configuration for Fink, written by the fink program >> >> # Local package trees - packages built from source locally >> # NOTE: this is automatically kept in sync with the Trees: line in >> # /sw/etc/fink.conf >> # NOTE: run 'fink scanpackages' to update the corresponding Packages.gz >> files >> deb file:/sw/fink local main >> deb file:/sw/fink stable main >> deb file:/sw/fink local injected >> deb file:/sw/fink unstable main >> >> # Official binary distribution: download location for packages >> # from the latest release >> debhttp://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.11stable main >> >> # Put local modifications to this file below this line, or at the top. >> >>> >>> And what method are you using to give the fink tools administrative >>> privileges? >> >> I generally just run from a root terminal. >> >>> >>> Finally, what OS X version are you using? >> >> El Capitan 10.11.15 >> >>> >>> As a workaround to the immediate problem, you can use “fink >>> configure” and shut off integration between fink and the binary >>> distribution tools. This will let you update, albeit always from source. >>> >> That seems to work, but it will be quite a while before it finishes >> recompiling some 150 or so packages. I'll let it run and then set >> binary back on & see if there is any change. But the stalling remains >> mysterious, eh? >> >> Thanks — Jess >> > > Nothing looked amiss. > > Yeah. The fact that not everybody gets the error makes it hard to nail > down. I’m on 10.11.5 myself. > > One question on the login method: is that a terminal logged in to a > root account, or accessed via “sudo -s” or “su”, etc. ? > > —akh
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