From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 10:43:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB47916A4E0 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:43:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from colossus.systems.pipex.net (colossus.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6F743D55 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:43:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phil@sal-n-phil.net) Received: from [10.0.0.254] (81-178-119-225.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.119.225]) by colossus.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9853B1C004FE; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:43:04 +0100 (BST) From: Phil Payne To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20040922103835.GA85905@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <1095692181.643.3.camel@gw.internal> <1095708454.643.10.camel@gw.internal> <1095710679.643.12.camel@gw.internal> <1095848367.4475.15.camel@gw.internal> <20040922103835.GA85905@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1095849784.39983.2.camel@gw.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:43:04 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: phil@sal-n-phil.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:43:13 -0000 On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:38, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-09-22 11:19, Phil Payne wrote: > > After having another search of the archives and seeing someone suggest > > they were having make problems in X: > > (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-September/058300.html) > > > > ... I ran the make installkernel outside of X (i.e. in a console) and it > > works fine. > > > > Try to run it in aterm or xterm and you get the "can't shift that many" > > error. > > > > I cannot pretend to know anything about why this is the case. > > This error seems to be caused by some sort of mishandling of nls.alias > when this command runs: > > : cd /usr/share/nls; set - `grep "^[a-zA-Z]" /usr/src/etc/nls.alias`; > : while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do rm -rf "$1"; ln -s "$2" "$1"; shift; shift; > : done > : shift: can't shift that many > : *** Error code 2 > : > : Stop in /usr/src/etc. > > For this to work correctly, the file /usr/src/etc/nls.alias should > contain pairs of words, as shown below: > > : # $FreeBSD: src/etc/nls.alias,v 1.5 2003/06/10 01:22:30 ache Exp $ > : > : POSIX C > : en_US.US-ASCII C > > Two questions that come to my mind are: > > 1. Have you changed this file in any way? Nope. Well... not by directly editing. > 2. What are the locale settings of your environment when this > fails, i.e. what does this print? > > $ env | grep '^L[AC]' | sort No output from this command. Here's the nls.alias file: gw# cat /usr/src/etc/nls.alias # $FreeBSD: src/etc/nls.alias,v 1.5 2003/06/10 01:22:30 ache Exp $ POSIX C en_US.US-ASCII C Phil. > - Giorgos >