> On May 30, 2016, at 15:18, Jess H. Brewer <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> 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
> deb http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.11
> <http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.11> stable 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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