On 11/3/21 05:49, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
So, Apple's crappy virtual memory system strikes again, and the
problem we're running into is that the +INSTALL and +DEINSTALL scripts
executed during upgrade of pkg_install fail because they're using
fork() when the original file system image of pkg_add and pkg_delete
are either missing or changed, as we're in the process of replacing them.
At least that's the best theory I'm working on right now, given the
inability to do any proper debugging on this OS, and goes some way to
explain why it's an intermittent failure.
I have a diff to switch the calls of these script to use system()
instead:
https://gist.github.com/jperkin/6e66a8753ec8039b298cac7b57f2a7de
and have verified that this "fixes" the issue in my limited testing,
but I'm expecting some objections to this change (I don't like it
either).
To those of you who object, please come up with some alternative
solutions. The only ones I can think of are really really bad.
Cheers,
I think I hit this error as well. I manually worked around it by
extracting pkg_add from from packages/All/pkg_install*.tgz and then
using it to reinstall the same tgz. Didn't get around to investigating
the cause.