(removing crosspost) You've got two separate things going on, so I'll address the issues in two separate mesages
Chris Beamis wrote: > When I type "fink selfupdate" I get the below long list of errors. > I just installed OS X 10.5.6 but it may be coincidence since I haven't > selfupdated recently. > > Also, what I'm not sure isn't an unrelated problem, now when I > click on the XDarwin application the screen momentarily turns black, > then gray, then comes back to the normal desktop without starting up > the X-server. > > We don't support either xorg or xfree86 on anything later than 10.4. I'm not at all surprised that your XDarwin application would be nonfunctional. See if you can run "sudo dpkg -r --force-depends xorg xorg-shlibs xfree86 xfree86-shlibs". This may give you an error, and if so, then you'll probably need to edit the file /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status by hand. If you know how to use vi, run sudo vi /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status If you know another text editor that does not damage files, use it (nano, pico, with some care also emacs or bbedit, with extreme care even TextEdit). Look for a line Package: xfree86 (or xorg) Then remove the whole paragraph (this line and all lines up to the next "Package:" line). If there is still a line "Package: xfree86-shlibs (or xorg-shlibs)", do the same for this. Save the file and then remove all files in /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/ whose name begins with "xfree86" (or "xorg"). Then run pkgutil --verify com.apple.pkg.X11User pkgutil --verify com.apple.pkg.X11SDKLeo pkgutil --verify com.apple.pkg.X11DocumentationLeo to see if you do have Leopard's X11 installed, and if it's still functional. Since it uses /usr/X11 rather than /usr/X11R6 it may even be OK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
