Hello, my G4 running OS 10.1.5 now refuses to boot after a Fink install, I am writing this mail from another machine. The booting process goes smooth until the progress bar reaches the end (BTW, shouldn't there be some text messages near the progress-bar ?), then the screen becomes all blue (probably that's when the login manager should be started) and remains in that state (look's almost like a replay of Micro$oft's BSOD, except the mouse-pointer works :-/). Unfortunately I cannot get network access through ssh at that point either. I'm not sure wether it's due to Fink or the installer or MacOS 10.1 or..., but just now that's a secondary question for me... Just want to know whether this rings a bell for someone (a search through the docs and archives reported some crashes using fink, but no irreversible system damage at installation) and if you have any idea on how to recover without re-installing everything. Now for the more detailed diagnosis:
I followed the Quick-Install procedure at http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php with the 0.4.1 binary installer. Probably insignificant detail: at step 3, I put source /sw/bin/init.sh into my profile because I use a zsh and not a csh. All went well, I had a lengthy reading and selecting through the package list of dselect (lengthy but full of very pleasant surprises), then hit [I]nstall. The install process reported errors for half a dozen packages (out of more than 100), which I was dumb enough not to save or remember. I was going to launch fink or dselect again to give those packages another try, but they would abort with more errors. So I decided to start anew, and re-installed the binary installer package _without_ removing /sw/* before. When the installation progress bar reached the end and the dialog said "installation successful", all disk drives disappeared from the desktop (a finder window would now show only the "Network" drive). All running programs continued to work and the dock still existed, but the whole filesystem seemed to have gone: in a Terminal window, no command which was not shell-built-in was found (ls, df, mount, ...). That's the end of the story: I decided to reboot, but that didn't help at all... I am sorry I can't recall the error messages from fink and dselect, maybe (hopefully) I'll be able to tell you someday when I manage to bring my computer back to live. But I would almost tend to suspect a bug in Apple's Installer and/or the binary installer scripts instead of the proper fink files, however buggily installed. Quite clueless, Adrian -- adrian daerr - MSC / Univ. Paris 7 & PMMH / ESPCI ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
