Greetings, all. I'm hoping the Fink community might be able to help me out.... I've read the docs, read the FAQ, searched the archives and spent most of this weekend trying to solve my problems on my own to no avail. I need some good advice.
Fink was working perfectly on my PowerBook G4 after I upgraded to 10.2 (upgraded to 10.2.3 build 6G30). At the time, I had to use the cvs tree because that was the only way to get Fink working at the time. My primary use for Fink was the mysql port (before the binaries became widely distributed elsewhere) and the X11 server. KDE 3.1 and Gnome were working wonderfully. To make a long story short, I had to reinstall Jaguar. After the reinstall, Xdarwin crashes on startup and NOTHING I do can start mysqld. I'm not a UNIX ubergeek, but I'm not a rookie either. I've installed mysql on dozens of machines. I can't run fink selfupdate nor fink selfupdate-cvs successfully. Dselect seems to be working normally though. Here's a typical sequence (December 2002 Developer Tools installed): =================== Last login: Sun Feb 9 17:24:45 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! [Jameys-TiBook-G4:~] jamey% fink --version Package manager version: 0.11.1 Distribution version: 0.5.0a.cvs [Jameys-TiBook-G4:~] jamey% fink selfupdate sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate Password: Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions directly from CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n] n [Jameys-TiBook-G4:~] jamey% fink selfupdate sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions directly from CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n] y I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'jamey'. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. su jamey -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' cvs: Command not found. ### execution of su failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. [Jameys-TiBook-G4:~] jamey% fink selfupdate-cvs sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate-cvs I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user 'jamey'. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. su jamey -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' cvs: Command not found. ### execution of su failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. [Jameys-TiBook-G4:~] jamey% =============== I've run the commands described in the archives. I know the easy way to go would be to hose Fink and reinstall. I'd prefer not to do that, though, because I have some database work (and a few UNIX apps) that I'd rather not lose. Plus, it'd take a long time to re-download everything that is probably not broken. Is there a way to reinstall just Fink without trashing the rest of /sw? Useful advice will be appreciated. Jamey Osborne ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
