Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:42:22 +1000 From: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> To: Stephen Bader <steveb@mercury.jorsm.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unexpected softupdate inconsistency Message-ID: <1078933342.1333.42.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040310090937.Y37786-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> References: <20040310090937.Y37786-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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--=-1X/aHgpEI9q/fuqYD0WC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 01:10, Stephen Bader wrote: > Just for my information if I ever run into this in the future, what do yo= u > mean by 'use vim on the dir entry'? >=20 vim /usr/ports/editors/vim gives the following output ... " Press ? for keyboard shortcuts " Sorted by name (.bak,~,.o,.h,.info,.swp,.obj at end of list) "=3D /usr/ports/editors/vim/ ../ files/ Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ~ =20 you are then able to edit the directory and what files it sees under that directory (careful it's easy to break things). So for example if the above included work/ which from an ls I can see is not there and a rm -rf of /usr/ports/editors/vim was failing then you could edit /usr/ports/editors/vim and remove the offending entry which should then enable you to remove that directory (hope this isn't too confusing). Cheers, Mark > -Steve >=20 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stephen Bader JORSM Internet, Regional Internet Services > Systems Administrator 7 Area Codes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana > steveb@jorsm.com 100Mbps+ Connectivity, 56K-DS3, V.90, ISDN > (219) 322-2180 Quality Service, Affordable Prices > http://www.jorsm.com Serving Gov, Biz, Indivds Since 1995 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >=20 > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >=20 > > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:23, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:21:30 +1000 > > > > > > Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> wrote: > > > > In situations like this it can be useful to use vim on the dir entr= y > > > > that is affected and remove the invalid filenames. This has worked = for > > > > me before. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > Thanks for the reply. Have to admit that it would have never occured = to > > > me to do this. Good idea. > > > > > > Did you experience this often? I'm worried. Never had something like > > > this before. > > > > You should watch that system - filesystems going bad out of the blue ar= e > > usually a warning sign of failing hardware (though not necessarily the = hdd > > itself, might be power issues, bad memory, etc.). > > > > -- > > ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org > > (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org > > \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org > > >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> SNSOnline Technical Services --=-1X/aHgpEI9q/fuqYD0WC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBATzdebS4ZEpHb8t0RAqB+AJ4ziWuMQFw7gmghhLcMPTXLsGsHgwCdFDrj yqcMOM/kySQL7t+JSFwQwms= =aoyb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1X/aHgpEI9q/fuqYD0WC--
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