-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/12/10 1:52 PM, Brian Shilton wrote: > 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 > >
And thank you for the update. It'd probably be useful for the bootstrap script to check for sharepoints. We know that Fink also has problems being installed on NFS shares (on remote machines), so I'm not too surprised. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxkNg0ACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9reQCfWz7irMO8wml5Ci6rgqphtO25 dIIAmwR1hS7ldyjG/53xv9HoG0oAJK15 =V6DZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
