I know I have posted about something like this, but that was longer back in the past than just April or May... Anyway, I had a similar problem. It was a bit more serious for me since it was programs like 'ls' and 'csh' (in /bin !!) among others that got set to 0.
Unfortunately I never managed to find out what had caused it. What I did then was simply to re-install MacOSX on top of the old installation, something that I simply had to do since I had lost so many base functions. Unfortunately that only meant that after about a week or so it happened _again_. I then re-installed the OS _again_ and removed the entire fink distribution (with rm) and installed everything again from scratch. Since then it has worked just fine, including fink I haste to add. I know this sounds really drastic, more like amputation than proper surgery, but it was the only thing that worked for me. /Ronny Rich Ramos wrote: > > I saw a bunch of posts to the mailing list back at the end of April and > beginning of May about files that had somehow been corrupted and were > now zero lenght. However, I never saw a solution posted. I'm having > the same problem. > > Here's the zero length files in /sw/bin: > > [/sw/bin:localhost] ramos% ls -l |grep ' 0 ' > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 bzcmp > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 bzdiff > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 bzegrep > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 bzfgrep > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 bzgrep > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 bzless > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 bzmore > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 gunzip > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 gzip.old > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Mar 18 17:03 ncftpbatch > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Mar 18 17:03 ncftpspooler > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 zcat > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 zcmp > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ramos unknown 0 Apr 19 13:57 zdiff > > How do I fix this and what's the cause? > > -Rich > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
