I had a big crash, two weeks ago (it was all my fault however) and it take me a whole week to recover my computer but it looks like I recovered everything until...
I tried to launch my KDE and everything went all-right. Few others programs were working smoothly but not fink :-(. First symptom : when I do fink self-update, I receive a list (really long) looking like : [...] No package name in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/pine- ssl-4.40-3.info No package name in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/stunnel-3.20-1.info No package name in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/yafc-0.7.4-2.info Updating package index... done. [...] However, fink list works nicely... Second symptom : when I try any update, update-all install or reinstall I obtain that : <u>update</u> mkdir -p /sw/src/libgtop-1.0.13-8 /sw/bin/tar -xvzf /sw/src/libgtop-1.0.13.tar.gz Failed: directory /sw/src/libgtop-1.0.13-8/libgtop-1.0.13 doesn't exist, check the package description <u>update-all</u> dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/net/ethereal_0.9.6-1_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/net/ethereal_0.9.6-1_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/net/ethereal_0.9.6-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/net/ethereal_0.9.6-1_darwin-powerpc.deb ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't install package ethereal-0.9.6-1 <u>install</u> The following package will be installed or updated: latex2rtf curl -f -L -O http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/latex2rtf/latex2rtf-1.9.13.tar. gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 100 466k 100 466k 0 0 354k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 0:00:00 472k mkdir -p /sw/src/latex2rtf-1.9.13-1 /sw/bin/tar -xvzf /sw/src/latex2rtf-1.9.13.tar.gz Failed: directory /sw/src/latex2rtf-1.9.13-1/latex2rtf-1.9.13 doesn't exist, check the package description (I found the /sw/src/latex2rtf-1.9.13-1/ but empty) <u>reinstall</u> The following package will be reinstalled: xmms dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/sound/xmms_1.2.7-3_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/sound/xmms_1.2.7-3_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' for reading: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- powerpc/sound/xmms_1.2.7-3_darwin-powerpc.deb ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't install package xmms-1.2.7-3 I re-installed dev-tools, retried the preceeding commands, tried apt-get but none worked. What should be missing or removed and how to repair ? Thanks, Eric DUFOUR ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
