Looks like a problem from the old Stats package which got renamed a while back. Try
rm -rf /Users/hs/.julia/.cache/Stats On Friday, August 22, 2014 1:52:16 PM UTC-7, Henry Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > Just d/led it and tried it out. I had a couple of old versions of 0.2.x > (and still have 0.2.1 installed but trashed the others - some rc's). The > computer is an iMac with 20 GB of RAM, 2.7 GHz quad i5. > > When I asked about the Pkg.status(), it came up with an error and similar > for PKG.installed() and Pkg.update(). I copy the output below (not too big, > I hope) I can't figure out what if anything I did "wrong" and did not find > anything about problems on the Mac -- TIA for any help > > Henry > > Last login: Fri Aug 22 16:07:45 on ttys009 > iMac-162:~ hs$ exec > '/Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia' > _ > _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing > (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org > _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" for help. > | | | | | | |/ _` | | > | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0 (2014-08-20 20:43 UTC) > _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ release > |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0 > > julia> help() > > Welcome to Julia. The full manual is available at > > http://docs.julialang.org > > To get help, try help(function), help("@macro"), or help("variable"). > To search all help text, try apropos("string"). > > julia> Pkg.status() > ERROR: failed process: Process(`git > --git-dir=/Users/hs/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base > 87d1c8d890962dfcfd0b45b82907464787ac7c64 > 8208e29af9f80ef633e50884ffb17cb25a9f5113`, ProcessExited(1)) [1] > in readbytes at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in readchomp at pkg/git.jl:24 > in installed_version at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in installed at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in status at pkg/entry.jl:107 > in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28 > in cd at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28 > in status at pkg.jl:28 (repeats 2 times) > > julia> Pkg.installed() > ERROR: failed process: Process(`git > --git-dir=/Users/hs/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base > 87d1c8d890962dfcfd0b45b82907464787ac7c64 > 8208e29af9f80ef633e50884ffb17cb25a9f5113`, ProcessExited(1)) [1] > in readbytes at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in readchomp at pkg/git.jl:24 > in installed_version at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in installed at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > (repeats 3 times) > in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28 > in cd at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28 > in installed at pkg.jl:25 > > julia> Pkg.add("Distributions") > INFO: Nothing to be done > INFO: METADATA is out-of-date — you may not have the latest version of > Distributions > INFO: Use `Pkg.update()` to get the latest versions of your packages > > julia> > > julia> Pkg.update() > INFO: Updating METADATA... > INFO: Updating cache of IniFile... > INFO: Updating cache of Cairo... > INFO: Updating cache of PyPlot... > INFO: Updating cache of Debug... > INFO: Updating cache of Calculus... > INFO: Updating cache of Units... > INFO: Updating cache of HDF5... > INFO: Updating cache of ICU... > INFO: Updating cache of Homebrew... > INFO: Updating cache of BinDeps... > INFO: Updating cache of Compose... > INFO: Updating cache of Color... > INFO: Updating cache of TimeSeries... > INFO: Updating cache of Gadfly... > ERROR: failed process: Process(`git > --git-dir=/Users/hs/.julia/.cache/Stats merge-base > 87d1c8d890962dfcfd0b45b82907464787ac7c64 > 8208e29af9f80ef633e50884ffb17cb25a9f5113`, ProcessExited(1)) [1] > in readbytes at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in readchomp at pkg/git.jl:24 > in installed_version at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in installed at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in update at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28 > in cd at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in __cd#227__ at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > in update at > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib > (repeats 2 times) > > julia> > >
