From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 27 18:28: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE3537B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e7S1RuU15933; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008280127.e7S1RuU15933@ptavv.es.net> To: Bruce Albrecht Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld fails when installing perl In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:01:45 CDT." <14761.26009.134350.786578@celery.zuhause.org> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:27:56 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oddly enough, I saw the same problem after a cvsup at about 10:00 PDT on Friday. What was odd is that I cvsup'ed my desktop and my laptop within minutes of one another and the desktop had zero problems. Where this really gets weird is that I had run short of space on my /usr partition and, rather than re-label, I just created an obj directory in my scratch partition and created a symlink to it. The buildworld was clean, but installworld failed because it was trying to operate in the wrong directory. (But the right partition!) It tried to install from /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/ext/SDBM_File when the actual directory was /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/ext/SDBM_File. Why is this really odd? Because I blew away /usr/obj and re-did the buildworld and installworld with obj on the /usr partition. It worked! I'd love an explanation of this. Is there a reason that obj can't be symlinked elsewhere and, how could it cause a loss in the repeat of the "perl" in the path??? Was your obj on /usr? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message