Chris Devers writes:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Regardless, it's not really relevant any more (apart from a purely
> > speculative perspective) as I have a much larger problem. I tried a
> > reboot to see if there were any conf files that should be read in or
> > something, and it stalled at Starting Directory Services. I'd read about
> > this problem, so I checked system.log, netinfo.log and so on, and
> > something is seriously broken somewhere (maybe this is why fink also
> > appears broken, who knows).
>
> ...anyone reading the story so far knows :)
>
> As Max noted, the problem you described ran much deeper than anything you
> should see merely as the result of tinkering with your dotfiles. You can
> cause problems by doing that, yeah, but it shouldn't have messed up Fink
> like that and it *definately* shouldn't have led to something like this.
>
> You're seeing the symptoms of a deeper problem here. For lack of a clearer
> idea of what exactly went wrong, reinstalling just might be necessary. I'm
> almost wondering if this is some kind of hardware failure. What kind of
> Mac are you running, exactly?
I'm running on a B/W G3 350 with 384 megs of ram. My theory is that the
whole series of problems dates from when I had a HD crash and managed to
salvage the system onto a different HD via Norton Utilites and the command
ditto.
It did work fine, for several reboots, but apparently there was a problem
that had escaped detection until now. I'm currently running Software Update
on the fresh install, and it's not complaining. I hope to be back up to
speed in a few days (but damn, it's a pain in the arse to reinstall all the
crap I had, heh).
> > Anyway, to answer your orignal question, Max, the way I saw that the
> > packages appeared to be forgotten by fink was by entering dselect, and
> > looking in the [S]elect section, where it had all packages as "not
> > installed"...
>
> I don't understand dselect well enough to shed much light here, but it
> does seem to be pretty finnicky. It seems like I've gotten it to try to
> uninstall everything ("nooooooooo!..."). Maybe it's easy to mess it up in
> such a way that it thinks you have nothing installed in the first place.
>
> A better indicator would have been simply looking at what you have in
> /sw/bin (etc), and what 'fink list' or 'fink --installed' or whatever.
my /sw/ folder did contain everything I had installed, and the software
worked fine when I typed their names, etc. Xwindows started without
problems. So my assumption would be that some Fink data/log/file had been
erased, or something to the effect...
-Mikkel
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