Could it be the permission of your CVS directory is messed up? See: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#cvs-busy
It worked for me to reset the permission when I had problem updating. Chia On 2/12/03 3:44 PM, "Jonathan Levi, M.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > after attempting fink selfupdate-cvs, which has worked for the most > part, I'm now getting > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > cvs -z3 update -d -P > cvs update: could not open /Users/jonathan/.cvspass: No such file or directory > cvs [update aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first > ### execution of cvs failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > > Looking through the archive, I see that someone had this problem last > August, ref > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02286.htm > l> > and Martin recommended > <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/cvsaccess/index.php>, but I frankly > couldn't understand it. It does say that "Fink will perform all > necessary steps automatically for you" and that's what Fink was > doing, but not any longer. > > Does it have anything do do with the fact that I just installed > Apple's X11 beta 2? > > tia, > > Jonathan > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
