Thanks a lot, Jeffrey! Incredibly, this worked. Best, Michael
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff <jeffrey.sarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have had this happen, too. My suggestion is grounded in persistence > rather than deep mastery of Julia's structural and file relationships. > So someone else may have a more studied approach with some explaining. > Until then, > > quit() Julia. > To have an new install be really clean, first cd to <whereitis>/.julia/ > and delete the directory `v0.5` -- if that is overkill because you do not > want to redo many Pkg.add()s then cd v0.5 and delete the METADATA directory > the REQUIRE file and the META_BRANCH file and the entry for whatever > packages you had added just before this difficulty (including those that > have hiccuped on precompile). > now delete and then reget the most current binary for your system > julia-0.5.0-rc4-osx10.7+.dmg > <https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/osx/x64/0.5/julia-0.5.0-rc4-osx10.7+.dmg> > install > Then start julia and quit(). Then start Julia and do Pkg.update() then > quit(). > Then start julia and do Pkg.add() for 1 package you want then quit(). then > start julia and do using <thatpackage> (so it precompiles) and quit(). > now try using that package. > > > > > > > On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 4:43:06 AM UTC-4, Michael Borregaard > wrote: >> >> Hi, Is this the right forum for troubleshooting / issues with my julia >> install? >> >> I have kept having problems with packages giving error on precompile, >> rendering julia unusable. I then reinstalled julia-0.5-rc4, and removed my >> .julia folder from my home dir to do a fresh install. Now, Julia fails with >> an error message when I do Pkg.update(): >> >> julia> Pkg.update() >> INFO: Initializing package repository /Users/michael/.julia/v0.5 >> INFO: Cloning METADATA from https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl >> ERROR: SystemError (with /Users/michael/.julia/v0.5/METADATA): rmdir: >> Directory not empty >> in #systemerror#51 at ./error.jl:34 [inlined] >> in (::Base.#kw##systemerror)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Base.#systemerror, >> ::Symbol, ::Bool) at ./<missing>:0 >> in #rm#7(::Bool, ::Bool, ::Function, ::String) at ./file.jl:125 >> in #rm#7(::Bool, ::Bool, ::Function, ::String) at >> /Applications/Julia-0.5.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/jul >> ia/sys.dylib:? >> in (::Base.Filesystem.#kw##rm)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Base.Filesystem.#rm, >> ::String) at ./<missing>:0 >> in init(::String, ::String) at ./pkg/dir.jl:62 >> in #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String, >> ::Vararg{Any,N}) at ./pkg/dir.jl:28 >> in update() at ./pkg/pkg.jl:210 >> >> I assums that a completely clean install should work. Are there keys to >> delete etc that will give me a properly clean install? I am on Mac OS X >> (newest version). >> Thanks! >> >
