On 1/29/13 7:01 AM, Wright, Herbert (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Im trying to run the self update and I get the following:
> 
> There is currently an active buildlock for the package
>      base-files (1.9.13-1)
> meaning some other fink process is currently building it.
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing
> /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.13-1_2013.01.29-08.57.34_d
> arwin-x86_64.deb (--install):
>  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.13-1_2013.01.29-08.57.34_
> darwin-x86_64.deb
> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
> Can't set build lock for base-files (1.9.13-1)
> 
> Regardless of the cause of the lock failure, don't worry: you have not
> wasted
> compiling time! Packages that had been completely built before this error
> occurred will not have to be recompiled.
> 
> See http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:buildlocks for more
> information. 
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.13-1 >/dev/null
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.13-1
> (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.13-1
> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
> Failed: buildlock failure
> 
> Ive tried removing and purging the build lock with no success.
> 
> 

You may have a process id file for a buildlock, too, which is why fink
reports that the build lock is active.  Check in
/sw/var/run/fink/buildlock/ for that.

> 
> 
> It might be related, but Im also getting this when I try to install a
> package:
> 
> sudo -u fink-bld [ENV] sh -c /tmp/fink.2rEDf
> /sw/bin/tar  --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xvf
> /sw/src/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
> 
> The process just stops and hangs there.
> 

That's probably unrelated.

> 
> Thanks,
> Herb Wright
> Contractor
> Desktop Group
> NCBI/NLM/NIH
> 
> wrigh...@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
> 
> 

How do you have Fink set up to gain root access?
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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