Adam,
I received wonderful information from the Fink package maintainer Max.
If you are noticing slow loads as well as the child capture process
error you might try this...
sudo /sw/var/lib/fink/prebound/update-package-prebinding.pl -f
I hope that this helps.
see Max's message below
Prebinding is a "feature" of Mac OS X, and it is normally performed
by installers after installing an application on your system (for
*any* application, not just Fink ones), and which is supposed to
speed up launching that application. The reasons as to why this is
necessary are historical and a bit complicated to explain, so I'll
leave that out. On 10.4, prebinding shouldn't be necessary anymore,
as far as I know, but the system uses prebinding info when present
anyway (or so --- I am actually not fully sure on this, as I haven't
dealt with prebinding under 10.4 yet, gotta read up the latest dev
docs when I have some spare time).
Fink normally performs prebinding automatically when you install a
package. However, in some rare cases, for whatever reason the
prebinding caches get corrupt, and then not only does prebinding
fail, but startup actually becomes much slower, because the system
tries in vain to perform prebinding "on the fly" as you launch the
application. This fails, causing sometimes huge delays.
That's just a rough run down and not fully accurate, but I hope you
get the rough idea.
--
David Radunsky
In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on
the next seven generations. -Iroquois Nation Maxim
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. -Louis Nizer,
lawyer (1902-1994)