This sounds like the finkinfo database might be somehow corrupted. Try
running 'fink index --full' to force a complete reindex. If that
doesn't work, you can also try deleting the following files and
folders from /sw/var/lib/fink to force a reindex: 'finkinfodb',
'index.db', 'proxies.db'.

-Dave

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Alexander Hansen
<alexanderk.hansen@gmai...> wrote:
> On 8/12/12 12:32 PM, Noah wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hmm...let's try something else that touches the same area of the code, then.
>>>
>>> Edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as a superuser and add the line
>>>
>>> NoAutoIndex: true
>>>
>>> to it.  Then save and see what happens if you run e.g. 'fink selfupdate'.
>>>
>>
>>
>> MacBookPro-002332D9A480-2 12:31:45 ~/bin $ fink selfupdate
>> rsync -az -q
>> rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP
>> /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
>> I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package
>> descriptions.
>> rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q   --include='10.4/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/' --include='10.4/stable/main/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/*/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/*'
>> --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.4/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/' --include='10.4/stable/crypto/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*/'
>> --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*'
>> --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION'
>> --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**'
>> 'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/'
>> The NoAutoIndex feature should only be used in special situations. You
>> can can
>> disable it by running 'fink configure'
>> Scanning package description files
>> Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1836
>> MacBookPro-002332D9A480-2 12:32:06 ~/bin $ cat /sw/etc/fink.conf
>> # Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap
>> Basepath: /sw
>> RootMethod: sudo
>> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/injected
>> Distribution: 10.6
>> SelfUpdateTrees: 10.4
>> ConfFileCompatVersion: 2
>> Mirror-apache: http://www.apache.org/dist
>> Mirror-apt: http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist
>> Mirror-cpan: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN
>> Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive
>> Mirror-debian: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
>> Mirror-freebsd: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles
>> Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp
>> Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME
>> Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
>> Mirror-kde: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde
>> Mirror-master: http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/
>> Mirror-rsync: rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
>> Mirror-sourceforge: http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/
>> MirrorContinent: nam
>> MirrorCountry: nam-us
>> MirrorOrder: MasterFirst
>> ProxyPassiveFTP: true
>> UseBinaryDist: false
>> Verbose: 1
>> SelfUpdateMethod: rsync
>> UpdateFrom: 10.5
>> NoAutoIndex: true
>> MaxBuildJobs: 4
>> MacBookPro-002332D9A480-2 12:32:10 ~/bin $
>>
>>
>>
> Well, shoot.
>
> I'll cc fink-core on this.  As best as I can tell from that somewhat
> minimal error message, the comes in from (fink-0.32.6):
>
> sub store_rename {
>         my ($ref, $file) = @_;
>         my ($dummy, $tmp) = tempfile("$file.XXXXX");
>
>         return 0 unless eval { require Storable };
>         if (Storable::store($ref, $tmp)) { # <--line 1836 in fink-0.32.6
>                 chmod 0644, $tmp; # Should be world-readable
>                 unless (rename $tmp, $file) {
>                         print_breaking_stderr("Error: could not activate temporary file $tmp:
> $!");
>                         return 0;
>                 }
>                 return 1;
>         } else {
>                 print_breaking_stderr("Error: could not write temporary file $tmp: $!");
>                 return 0;
>         }
> }
>
> And store_rename() appears to be called only in Package.pm according to
> a grep:
>
> perlmod/Fink/Package.pm:                        unless (store_rename(\%store, $fidx->{cache})) {
> perlmod/Fink/Package.pm:                        store_rename($idx, $class->db_index);
> perlmod/Fink/Package.pm:                        store_rename($packages, $class->db_proxies);
>
> I'm not sure yet which of these instances might somehow return a
> non-reference.
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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