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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:15:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Alex <freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installworld problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203281414480.12604-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8137181153.20020328191457@dds.nl>

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Alex wrote:

> Hello freebsd-questions,
> 
> I installed FreeBSD fresh from the ground a couple of week ago. I
> tried to make the entire world right after this. The buildworld cycle
> goes right, but when i want to install the error come up.
> 
> It complains about the local Russian language. The symlink ru_SU.CP866
> should point at a directory witch hold the file LC_COLLATE. There are
> more links like this one. At least all the ru* links (no directories)
> are bad. 
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this? Tanks in advance for answering.
>   
> --- data from the install ---
> install -c -m 644 -o root -g wheel  ru_SU.CP866.out /usr/share/locale/ru_SU.CP866/LC_COLLATE
> install: /usr/share/locale/ru_SU.CP866/LC_COLLATE: Too many levels of symbolic links
> *** Error code 71
> 1 error
> *** Error code 2
> 1 error
> *** Error code 2
> 
> --- ls /usr/share/locale/ru* ---
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11 Mar 28 14:59 ru_RU.CP866@ -> ru_SU.CP866
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16 Mar 28 14:59 ru_RU.ISO_8859-5@ -> ru_SU.ISO_8859-5
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12 Mar 28 14:59 ru_RU.KOI8-R@ -> ru_SU.KOI8-R
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  11 Mar 18 01:34 ru_SU.CP866@ -> ru_RU.CP866
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  15 Mar 18 01:34 ru_SU.ISO8859-5@ -> ru_RU.ISO8859-5
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  15 Mar 18 01:34 ru_SU.ISO_8859-5@ -> ru_RU.ISO8859-5
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  12 Mar 18 01:34 ru_SU.KOI8-R@ -> ru_RU.KOI8-R
> 
> The seem to be linking to each other to me.
> 
See /usr/src/UPDATING for the renaming of the locales in -stable. This
might be relevant to your problem.

	Annelise 

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