On Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:41:52 AM +0200 Daniel Elstner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:03:47 -0400 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > Apparently it's a reiserfs/symlink problem.
>> > I tried doing the lndir on an ext2 partition, sources still
>> > on reiserfs. And it worked just fine!
>>
>> Neat, thanks for the extra details. Does that mean you can consistently
>> repeat on reiserfs now? What happens when you do the lndir on reiserfs
>> and diff the directories?
>
> I just played around a bit with the following results:
>
> sources on reiserfs, lndir on reiserfs -> make fails, diff ok
> sources on reiserfs, lndir on ext2 -> make ok
> sources on ext2, lndir on reiserfs -> make fails, diff ok
>
> Doing the diff against a second copy of the tree shows no errors, too.
> Always the same behaviour: You have to run lndir at least twice to
> get the error. If the link tree was already set up after a boot, the
> error occurs only after rm + lndir + rm + lndir.
>
> There's a strange way to get things working just like after a reboot.
> After diff'ing the link tree with the 2nd copy (both on reiserfs),
> make World won't fail - at least once.
Ok, can you reproduce with a set of sources other than X? I would leave
glibc alone for now, unless you can reproduce on ext2.
-chris
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