On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:33 AM, François Giron wrote:

<snip>

>>>
>>> I run 'fink cleanup all', 'fink remove fink-buildlock- 
>>> gnumeric-1.8.1-3', but the result is the same.
>>>
>>> Suppression de fink-buildlock-gnumeric-1.8.1-3 ...
>>> There is currently an active buildlock for the package
>>>   gnumeric (1.8.1-3)
>>> meaning some other fink process is currently building it.
>>> /sw/bin/dpkg : erreur de traitement de fink-buildlock- 
>>> gnumeric-1.8.1-3 (--remove) :
>>> le sous-processus pre-removal script a retourné une erreur de  
>>> sortie d'état 1
>>> Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant  
>>> l'exécution :
>>> fink-buildlock-gnumeric-1.8.1-3
>>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
>>> ERROR: Can't remove package(s). If the above error message  
>>> mentions dependency
>>> problems, you can try
>>> fink remove --recursive fink-buildlock-gnumeric-1.8.1-3
>>> This will attempt to remove the package(s) specified as well as  
>>> ALL packages
>>> that depend on it.
>>> Failed: can't remove package fink-buildlock-gnumeric-1.8.1-3
>>>
>>> % fink list -t fink-buildlock
>>> Information about 7204 packages read in 5 seconds.
>>> p      fink-buildlock          [virtual package]
>>> *i*     fink-buildlock-gnumeric-1.8.1-3 2008.07.25-10.07.04      
>>> Package compile-time lockfile
>>>
>>
>> if you're sure that you don't have a window open that has a build  
>> of gnumeric in it (possibly suspended), then the best things I can  
>> think  of trying are to use "ps ax" to see if you still have a  
>> process around that became disconnected and then to "kill" it if  
>> there is one; or just to reboot to make sure any such process is  
>> dead.  This will probably require a bit of additional work to clean  
>> up, but let's start just by getting rid of the build lock.
>
> Ok. The problem seems to be these: during update-all (278 packages!)  
> the gnumeric update failed and Terminal.app had a locking. I quit  
> and open my session and remove gnumeric to continue the update-all  
> with Eterm. But I see with the 'ps ax' this:
>
> 1258   ??   E     0:00.00 (Terminal)
>
> I reboot, and all is OK.
> Thanks

You're welcome.

The build locks work reasonably well, but in cases where a terminal  
crashes, they may not get deactivated properly, as you have experienced.


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