Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:45:10 -0800 From: "Gregory W. MacPherson" <greg@netpublishing.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: installworld fails - nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: too many levels of symbolic links Message-ID: <20090221004510.GB92724@b2.datasieve.net>
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The problem is that both of the files: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME and /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME ... are symbolic links ... to each other. The solution is to remove one symlink and replace it with a real file as shown below: rm -f /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME touch /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME Now /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME is a symbolic link and /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME is a real (albeot zero length) file. And, yes, someone ought to fix this in CVS. -- Greg > On Saturday 31 January 2009 07:09:39 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I'm upgrading from 7.1-prerelease to 7.1-stable. I followed the > manual. > > make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot, > > make installworld fails with > > > > install: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: Too many levels of > > symbolic links > > Can you provide output of: > ls -l /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.IS8859-1/LC_TIME > > -- > Mel > > Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules > and never get to the software part. -- Gregory W. MacPherson Global Network Exploitation Specialist, CISSP http://www.datasieve.net/greg/ "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain
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