On Jul 5, 2004, at 15:02, Lawrence You wrote:
On 7/5/2004 1:50 PM, Viktor Haag wrote:
Justin Walker writes:I just tried to update Fink and was getting the same "can't create temporary directory" errors. All of my directory permissions looked OK. Both "fink selfupdate" and FinkCommander's "selfupdate" commands give the same errors. Switching to the rsync method fixed the problem for me.
> > On Jul 5, 2004, at 13:31, Rich Warren wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Now downloading package descriptions...
> > cvs -q -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink > > checkout -d fink dists
> > can't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv31747
> > Permission denied
> > ### execution of cvs failed, exit code 1
> > Failed: Downloading package descriptions from CVS failed.
> > Hard to know for sure without seeing what is in /tmp.
I'm getting the same error. Here's what ls -al shows i my tmp:
Looks like something funky is going on. I haven't had time to try this out, but has there been any entries in the system/console logs that might relate?
It may take someone with more in-depth understanding of the install scheme to figure this out.
Regards,
Justin
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