Re: [Fink-users] buildlock failure

[Ralph G. <rge...@ic...>]

On 20/07/2017 02:29, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 7/19/17 1:59 AM, Ralph Gebauer wrote:
>> Dear fink users,
>>
>> while compiling the latest version of the gcc6 compiler, my computer 
>> crashed (for reasons not related to fink).
>>
>> Now it seems impossible to "restart" the update process of gcc6: I 
>> obtain a buildlock failure, probably due to the half-finished 
>> compilation (see below).
>>
>> I also tried "fink cleanup --bl", but this didn't help.
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for any help with this issue.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>> fink update gcc6-compiler
>> Information about 10230 packages read in 2 seconds.
>> The following package will be installed or updated:
>>   gcc6-compiler
>> The following additional package will be installed:
>>   gcc6-shlibs
>> Default answer will be chosen in 60 seconds...
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>> Setting runtime build-lock...
>> dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1 
>> /sw/src/fink.build
>> dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1' in 
>> `/sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1_2017.07.19-08.36.18_darwin-x86_64.deb'. 
>>
>> Installing build-lock package...
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i 
>> /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1_2017.07.19-08.36.18_darwin-x86_64.deb 
>>
>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 6950 
>> package `fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1':
>>   missing version
>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
>> Can't set build lock for gcc6 (6.4.0-1)
>>
>> If any of the above dpkg error messages mention conflicting packages 
>> or missing dependencies
>> -- for example, telling you that the package 
>> fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1 conflicts with
>> something else -- fink has probably gotten confused by trying to build 
>> many packages at once.
>> Try building just this current package gcc6 (i.e, "fink build gcc6"). 
>> When that has completed
>> successfully, you could retry whatever you did that led to the present 
>> error.
>>
>> Regardless of the cause of the lock failure, don't worry: you have not 
>> wasted compiling time!
>> Packages that had been completely built before this error occurred 
>> will not have to be
>> recompiled.
>>
>> See https://github.com/fink/fink/wiki/Buildlocks for more information.
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1 >/dev/null
>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 6950 
>> package `fink-buildlock-gcc6-6.4.0-1':
>>   missing version
>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
>> Failed: buildlock failure
> 
> Does this help:
> http://www.finkproject.org/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#dpkg-parse-error
> 
> Hanspeter

Thanks a lot! This solved the problem.

Ralph