From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 14: 1:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4ABF37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@mail.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id f2CM1Lj27040 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:01:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f2CM1lK11653 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:01:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:01:46 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: trouble with pkg_add Message-ID: <20010312230145.A11054@cicely20.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ticso@cicely5:/tmp# pkg_add -f -v png-1.0.9_1.tgz Requested space: 831096 bytes, free space: 13705216 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.ijZaPY extract: Package name is png-1.0.9_1 extract: CWD to /usr/local pkg_add: extract_plist: unable to cwd to '/usr/local' Exit 2 The reason is that /usr/local is a softlink to an amd volume instead of a directory: ticso@cicely5:/tmp# ls -ald /usr/local lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Nov 29 1998 /usr/local -> /vol/local ticso@cicely5:/tmp# ls -ald /usr/local/. drwxr-xr-x 41 root wheel 1024 Dec 21 21:05 /usr/local/. If I make /usr/local a real directory everything works fine, but that's something I don't want to do generaly when installing a package. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message