>
> I had the same problem on Ubuntu 13.10, and I have installed julia from
> the source. Upon Pkg.rm("stats") and then Pkg.update() it worked just fine,
> as shown below.
>
julia> exit()
abhijith@abhijith-K55A:~/Documents/Viral/julia$ ./julia
_
_ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
(_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+1358 (2014-02-01 14:56
UTC)
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit cb26338* (1 days old master)
|__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu
julia> Pkg.update()
INFO: Updating METADATA...
ERROR: failed process: Process(`git
--git-dir=/home/abhijith/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base
5f298c9e4082b2c8f7a04da58b8d6a1eb00d403a
5113ce6044fc554b350ea16f92502f8d6e077a62`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
in pipeline_error at process.jl:480
in readbytes at process.jl:434
in readall at process.jl:441
in readchomp at pkg/git.jl:24
in installed_version at pkg/read.jl:71
in installed at pkg/read.jl:122
in update at pkg/entry.jl:254
in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:27
in cd at file.jl:22
in cd at pkg/dir.jl:27
in update at pkg.jl:41
julia> Pkg.rm("Stats")
INFO: Removing Stats (unregistered)
julia> Pkg.update()
INFO: Updating METADATA...
INFO: Computing changes...
INFO: Cloning cache of ArrayViews from
git://github.com/lindahua/ArrayViews.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of DataArrays from
git://github.com/JuliaStats/DataArrays.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of Datetime from
git://github.com/karbarcca/Datetime.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of Hexagons from
git://github.com/dcjones/Hexagons.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of Loess from git://github.com/dcjones/Loess.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of SortingAlgorithms from
git://github.com/JuliaLang/SortingAlgorithms.jl.git
INFO: Cloning cache of StatsBase from
git://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl.git
INFO: Installing ArrayViews v0.2.5
INFO: Upgrading BinDeps: v0.2.4 => v0.2.12
INFO: Upgrading Blocks: v0.0.0- => v0.0.1
