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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:11:42 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installworld fails - nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: too many levels of symbolic links
Message-ID:  <20090202121141.GA97510@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200901310800.58267.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
References:  <20090131160939.GA67127@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <200901310800.58267.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:00:58AM -0900, Mel wrote:
> On Saturday 31 January 2009 07:09:39 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I'm upgrading from 7.1-prerelease to 7.1-stable. I followed the manual.
> > make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot,
> > make installworld fails with
> >
> > install: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: Too many levels of
> > symbolic links
> 
> Can you provide output of:
> ls -l /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.IS8859-1/LC_TIME

# ls -l /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  365 31 Jan 16:26 /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC
_TIME
#

HOwever, in the meantime, I just deleted all locale/nb* during installworld
stage to get past that error. I'm not sure that what I got in the end
under locale/nb* is what you'd expect.

thank you
anton

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