Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:47:18 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installworld fails -> err code 71 -> too many levels of symbolic links Message-ID: <20081021204718.GA76302@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20081021202237.GA65425@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20081021083013.GB40486@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <200810211200.02746.jhb@freebsd.org> <20081021202237.GA65425@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:22:37PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:00:02PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> 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? > > who's DES? > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@freebsd.org> -- Steve
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