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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:00:02 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject:   Re: installworld fails -> err code 71 -> too many levels of symbolic links
Message-ID:  <200810211200.02746.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081021083013.GB40486@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <20081021083013.GB40486@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Tuesday 21 October 2008 04:30:13 am Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'm rebuilding the world on i386 FBSD 8.0-currnet following the manual.
> I cvsup'ed the source on 20-OCT-2008, made buildworld, built kernel,
> installed kernel, rebooted into single user mode, and tried to installworld.
> I got:
> 
> install: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: Too many levels
> of symbolic links
> *** Error code 71
> 
> Stop in /usr/srs/share/timedef.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

I've had to just blow away /usr/share/locale/nb* and /usr/share/locale/no* to 
get installworld to work.  Maybe ask DES as I think he changed some of them 
to be symlinks instead of directories?

-- 
John Baldwin



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