Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-07 Thread carthagtuek
Chris Devers writes: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Chris Devers writes: > > > > > You're seeing the symptoms of a deeper problem here. For lack of > > > a clearer idea of what exactly went wrong, reinstalling just might > > > be necessary. I'm almost wondering if this is

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Chris Devers writes: > > > You're seeing the symptoms of a deeper problem here. For lack of > > a clearer idea of what exactly went wrong, reinstalling just might > > be necessary. I'm almost wondering if this is some kind of hardware > failure. What

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-07 Thread Alexander Strange
On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 01:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running on a B/W G3 350 with 384 megs of ram. My theory is that the > whole series of problems dates from when I had a HD crash and managed to > salvage the system onto a different HD via Norton Utilites and the > command > di

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-07 Thread carthagtuek
Chris Devers writes: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Regardless, it's not really relevant any more (apart from a purely > > speculative perspective) as I have a much larger problem. I tried a > > reboot to see if there were any conf files that should be read in or > > someth

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Regardless, it's not really relevant any more (apart from a purely > speculative perspective) as I have a much larger problem. I tried a > reboot to see if there were any conf files that should be read in or > something, and it stalled at Starting Dir

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread carthagtuek
Max Horn writes: > At 14:35 Uhr -0600 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > >>>Exactly. > >>> > >>>[cannedtunes:~] carthag% fink list installed > >>>Reading package info... > >>>Information about 288 packages read in 17 seconds. > >>>[cannedtunes:~] carthag% > >> > >>Wow pretty bad.

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread Andreas Gschwendtner
> Err, what exactly are you deduciing this from? You mean that if you > enter "fink list --installed" it will give you an empty list? > > Max Why does fink's man page not list the --installed option? I was about to file a feature request for such an option, great that it is already there! Are th

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread Max Horn
At 14:35 Uhr -0600 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] >>>Exactly. >>> >>>[cannedtunes:~] carthag% fink list installed >>>Reading package info... >>>Information about 288 packages read in 17 seconds. >>>[cannedtunes:~] carthag% >> >>Wow pretty bad. Something more must have happend that you

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread segment289
On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 02:13 , Max Horn wrote: > At 20:04 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Max Horn writes: >> >>> At 18:34 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >Hi >>> > >>> >I've been using Fink for a while, but after I fiddled a bit with my >>> .tcs

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread Max Horn
At 20:04 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Max Horn writes: > >> At 18:34 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Hi >> > >> >I've been using Fink for a while, but after I fiddled a bit with my .tcshrc >> >file to add some settings, I accidentally removed the source /

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread carthagtuek
Max Horn writes: > At 18:34 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi > > > >I've been using Fink for a while, but after I fiddled a bit with my .tcshrc > >file to add some settings, I accidentally removed the source /sw/ etc line. > >So then I put it back in, but now Fink doesn't ind

Re: [Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread Max Horn
At 18:34 Uhr + 06.04.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi > >I've been using Fink for a while, but after I fiddled a bit with my .tcshrc >file to add some settings, I accidentally removed the source /sw/ etc line. >So then I put it back in, but now Fink doesn't indicate that any packages >are in

[Fink-users] Fink "forgot" my installed packages

2002-04-06 Thread carthagtuek
Hi I've been using Fink for a while, but after I fiddled a bit with my .tcshrc file to add some settings, I accidentally removed the source /sw/ etc line. So then I put it back in, but now Fink doesn't indicate that any packages are installed, even though a lot are (lynx, xmms, xdarwin, freeciv,