I ran disk utility and there were an inordinate number of mixed up permissions, which were fixed. But still fink would not bootstrap - the same error message was produced. Reading the diagnostics, I figured that the problem maybe has something to do with multiple filesystems or sharepoints, but disconnecting from the server function did not help the bootstrapping process. I probably should have tried turning off sharepoints, but rationalized that this process worked once with the initial installation, and that starting again from scratch would be faster.
So, I re-installed the server system software, updated it, and installed developer tools, and then went straight to bootstrapping fink (i.e. before messing around with server functions) and it has now worked and I am beginning to install packages. So, I do not think it is a problem with tar or the unzipping of the file, nor having multiple discs. I am guessing it has something to do with sharing and associated permission complexities. I did note that the "._." and "._sw" files were popping up in the root directory every time I tried the bootstrapping process previously (i.e. when it failed), but those files are not present in the root directory after the successful bootstrap. Thanks for the help! Brian On Aug 11, 2010, at 21:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/11/10 2:53 PM, Brian Shilton wrote: >> I am not sure if the filesystem was changed from the first installation >> - probably not, because when erasing the disks the default is Mac OS >> Extended (Journaled) - the current filesystem - and we generally go with >> defaults. In both cases, we are using the two disks together as a >> mirrored RAID set. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brian >> > > There are a few additional diagnostics mentioned in > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.beginners/24665 > > Hopefully your recently-cleaned filesystem won't show up as weird to > Disk utility. :-) But checking to see where the /._ (ACL) files first > show up might be informative, as would the results of tarring and > untarring a directory. > > We've had problems in the past when Apple changed tar--that's one reason > the Fink distro includes its own version and the dpkg package manager > uses that (after boostrapping is done). > - -- > Alexander Hansen > Fink User Liaison > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxjS60ACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9e5QCeOwzQiu7usYM2mVRoZdObK+vm > K0QAoIsn/cqsPvKFOUcbrVpYYJ+RyMT8 > =X3I7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian Shilton Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair Department of Biochemistry Medical Sciences Building Room 332 The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 5C1 Phone: 519-661-4124; Fax 519-661-3175 http://www.biochem.uwo.ca/fac/shilton/shilton.html
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