[Fink-users] fink fails to unpack file

2004-01-02 Thread Stephen Trowell
I have recently installed Fink and Fink Commander under MacOSX 10.3.2 (Xcode 1.1; Apple X11) and used it to install GIMP (awesome) and gperiodic. However, now whenever I try to install ANY fink package - and I have tried several - I get an error message of this type (the example is from an

Re: [Fink-users] fink fails to unpack file

2004-01-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Stephen Trowell wrote: [] ~% gzip -dc /sw/src/fink-0.17.1.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xvf- Segmentation fault (core dumped) If you repeat this with /usr/bin/tar instead of /sw/bin/tar, do you get the same result? And with /sw/bin/gzip vs /usr/bin/gzip? -- Martin

Re: [Fink-users] fink fails to unpack file

2004-01-02 Thread Stephen Trowell
Martin, On 02/01/2004, at 10:55 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stephen Trowell wrote: [] > ~% gzip -dc /sw/src/fink-0.17.1.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xvf- > Segmentation fault (core dumped) If you repeat this with /usr/bin/tar instead of /sw/bin/tar, do you get the same result? Diiferent result, I

Re: [Fink-users] fink fails to unpack file

2004-01-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Stephen Trowell wrote: Martin, On 02/01/2004, at 10:55 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Stephen Trowell wrote: [] ~% gzip -dc /sw/src/fink-0.17.1.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xvf- Segmentation fault (core dumped) If you repeat this with /usr/bin/tar instead of /sw/bin/tar, do you get

Re: [Fink-users] fink fails to unpack file

2004-01-02 Thread Stephen Trowell
Thanks, :-) On 03/01/2004, at 1:00 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: It seems clear now that your /sw/bin/tar is rotten. I would suggest to remove it, sudo mv /sw/bin/tar /sw/bin/tar_rotten, done and then fink rebuild tar. done but failed (no package description or similar diagnostic) Maybe