At Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:57:25 +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > > Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > Do you have the same filesystem type on all of your machines? > > Not completely. The machine where I observed this has /sw/src/fink.build > inside a mounted disk image that is formatted with HFS+ case sensitive. > I first thought that this was the problem, but then I ran the little > script outside, on a standard case insensitive HFS+(journaled) > partition, and the same thing happened. This was on a dual G5. Then on > the G4 powerbook I am typing this on, with a single 100GB partition > (10GB free), formatted standard HFS+, the same thing happened. On 2 > iMacs, one ppc G5 and another one intel C2D, there was no problem (apart > from, as I mentioned, getting rid of the nested directories that 'rm > -rf' doesn't want to touch). > > All these machines run MacOSX 10.4.9 and have more or less the same Fink > installation and use the same system perl. I have not yet found anything > significant that links the 2 machines where the failure happens and sets > them apart from the others where it doesn't happen. Googling hasn't > reveiled anything yet either. > > Here is another point: When I get the failure with my little perl > script, and I cd into the deepest level (30 floors down), then any > "mkdir" command will give the error, where "mkdir" can be /sw/bin/mkdir > from coreutils or /bin/mkdir. The directory will actually be created, > despite the error message. Funnily, perl mkdir did not give the error > message when I just tried. Also "mkdir -p a" does not give the error > message, although "mkdir a" does. >
I received some reports reporting the same error. I suppose we found an OS bug. I turned off the pwd-long test. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
