Look further up in the output. Chances are there will be an error message. Frequently it's about some file that has to be manually moved out of the way.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Andreas Gschwendtner wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a little problem... When I do fink-selfupdate-cvs, this is the output > that I get (I left out the middle part, where the dots are): > > [localhost:~] andreas% sudo fink selfupdate-cvs > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'andreas'. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > ------- > su andreas -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' > ? stamp-rel-0.3.2a > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/curl-ssl-7.9.2-1.info > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-8.info > ? dists/stable/crypto/finkinfo/gnupg-1.0.6-8.patch > . > . > . > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system > cvs server: Updating dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm > ### su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > [localhost:~] andreas% > -------- > > I can't see anything unusual in the output. What's happened? (Yesterday it > worked and I didn't change anything :( > > Andreas > > > > Sponsored by http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
