[Fink-beginners] fink Failed: buildlock failure

[Thomas S. <sch...@ma...>]

I upgraded a computer to macOS Sierra 10.12.6
and eventually got 

% fink reinstall fink

to work and complete.  Then I did

% fink selfupdate

until I got:

> The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other packages
> using commands like 'fink update-all'.

During the update something else I was doing caused the Terminal to
quit (I was inserting text with command-V into a mutt/vim session ... 
sheesh.  Maybe the insert had an odd unicode character ...).

So I retried:

% fink update-all
Password:
Information about 11097 packages read in 2 seconds.
The following 14 packages will be installed or updated:
 fftw3 fftw3-shlibs gcc5-compiler gcc5-shlibs gdb gnupg2 imagemagick
 imagemagick6.9.q16-common libcurl4 libcurl4-shlibs libmagickcore6.9.q16.2-shlibs
 libmagickwand6.9.q16.2-shlibs openmpi openmpi-shlibs
The following 11 additional packages will be installed:
 gcc6-compiler gcc6-shlibs gcc7-compiler gcc7-shlibs imagemagick7.q16-common isl3
 libmagickcore7.q16.2-shlibs libmagickwand7.q16.0-shlibs libwebp6 openssl100-dev
 readline6
The following package might be temporarily removed:
 openldap24-dev
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-gcc5-5.5.0-1 /sw/src/fink.build
dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-gcc5-5.5.0-1' in `/sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-gcc5-5.5.0-1_2017.10.18-20.02.03_darwin-x86_64.deb'.
Installing build-lock package...
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-gcc5-5.5.0-1_2017.10.18-20.02.03_darwin-x86_64.deb
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 11062 package `fink-buildlock-gcc5-5.5.0-1':
 missing version
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
Can't set build lock for gcc5 (5.5.0-1)

If any of the above dpkg error messages mention conflicting packages or missing
dependencies -- for example, telling you that the package
fink-buildlock-gcc5-5.5.0-1 conflicts with something else -- fink has probably
gotten confused by trying to build many packages at once. Try building just this
current package gcc5 (i.e, "fink build gcc5"). 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-gcc5-5.5.0-1 >/dev/null
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 11062 package `fink-buildlock-gcc5-5.5.0-1':
 missing version
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
Failed: buildlock failure
%

I did 

% fink build gcc5

and got the same problem.  Clearly some file got zapped when
the Terminal quit unexpectedly.

How do I get out of this corner?

Should I follow the editing instructions at the end of the page
https://github.com/fink/fink/wiki/Buildlocks
?

> To fix this you'll need to edit /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status as root,
> go to the line number that is complaining, and change install ok
> installed to purge ok not-installed.

Thanks!

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
  RNA Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  sch...@ma...
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