When I ran a self-update on fink today, I got an odd message when fink was updating the indexes of the binary distribution:
--- Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution. /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update Get:1 http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Get:2 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Hit http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Release 82% [1 Packages gzip 0] [2 Packages 43155/65.5kB 65%] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Release 99% [2 Packages gzip 0] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Fetched 131kB in 0s (141kB/s) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkproject.org/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkproject.org_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkproject.org_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. Running 'fink scanpackages' may fix indexing problems. Scanning package description files.......WARNING: Unresolved CVS conflicts in info2 of "/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/php5.info". WARNING: Repeated occurrence of field "builddepends" at line 9 of info2 of "/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/php5.info". ... --- A subsequent update-all built updates normally, though it returned the same "Couldn't stat source package list" errors that the selfupdate gave. Then, at the end of the update-all process, I got this error when fink again tried to get the binary distribution indexes: --- Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution. /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update Get:1 http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Get:2 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Hit http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Release 99% [1 Packages gzip 424777] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) 99% [2 Packages gzip 0] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Fetched 131kB in 0s (202kB/s) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkproject.org/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. --- Following the advice of the first error message, I ran apt-get update, with the following response: --- $ apt-get update E: Could not open lock file /sw/var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the list directory --- I checked the permissions in that directory: --- $ ls -l /sw/var/lib/apt/lists total 2288 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 0 Apr 27 23:36 _sw_fink_dists_local_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 84 Apr 27 23:36 _sw_fink_dists_local_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Release -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1153294 Apr 27 23:36 _sw_fink_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 85 Apr 27 23:36 _sw_fink_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Release -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 85 Apr 16 23:54 bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Release -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 85 Apr 16 23:54 bindist.finkproject.org_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Release -rw-r----- 1 root admin 0 Apr 27 23:36 lock drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Apr 27 23:36 partial --- Then I tried the apt-get update again under a sudo: --- $ sudo apt-get update Password: Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Get:2 http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Release 99% [1 Packages gzip 0] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) 99% [2 Packages gzip 0] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Fetched 131kB in 1s (120kB/s) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkproject.org/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkproject.org_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkmirrors.net_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages (/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/bindist.finkproject.org_10.9_dists_stable_main_binary-darwin-x86%5f64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. --- So then I tried the other advice from the first error message: --- $ fink scanpackages Updating the list of locally available binary packages. Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-x86_64 Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64 Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution. /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update Get:1 http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Get:2 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages [65.5kB] Hit http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Release 91% [1 Packages gzip 0] [2 Packages 54739/65.5kB 83%] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Release 99% [2 Packages gzip 0] gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Fetched 131kB in 2s (62.0kB/s) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Failed to fetch http://bindist.finkproject.org/10.9/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. --- Clearly, something odd is happening here, but I can't put my finger on where. I'm not even sure if the problem is actually on my system, or if there's something amiss with bindist.finkmirrors.org and bindist.finkmirrors.net. So does anyone have any suggestions? Versions: OS X 10.9.2 Xcode 5.1.1 Xcode CLT 5.1.0.0.1.1396320587 fink 0.36.4.1 apt-get 0.5.4 Mark D. McKean qpa...@quantumpanda.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. 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