On 3/28/13 9:16 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 28/03/13 17:01, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> I was finally able to reproduce this--I hadn't tried using 10.8 before >> now. I had thought that people were also able to trigger this issue on >> other OS X versions, but I might have remembered incorrectly. >> >> I set up a Fink tree with RootMethod: none. If I use "sudo -s" or just >> "su" to switch to root then tar works. If I use "su -", then tar hangs. >> >> There are some significant environment differences, and perhaps one of >> these accounts for the issue (since this is a test Fink environment the >> Fink tree isn't being loaded automatically): >> >> (su -) > [] >> SHELL=/bin/sh >> USER=root >> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin > >> (su) > [] >> SHELL=/bin/sh > > USER=hansen >> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/hansen/bin >> >> _=/usr/bin/printenv > > How did you set up your Fink environment for the root user? Manually? Or > not at all? With pathsetup.sh it won't work, because it doesn't support > sh as shell. >
That would be "not at all" for me. My test case is just to run # /tmp/sw/bin/fink rebuild base-files -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
