From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 08:20:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19887 for current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 08:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from cbgw1.lucent.com (cbgw1.lucent.com [192.20.239.133]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA19882 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 08:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from nasvr1.cb.lucent.com by cbig1.firewall.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-L sol2) id LAA05317; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:13:40 -0500 Received: from cbsky.cb.lucent.com by nasvr1.cb.lucent.com (5.x/EMS-L sol2) id AA18160; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:20:56 -0500 Received: by cbsky.cb.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-1.1 Sol2) id LAA26688; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:20:55 -0500 Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 11:20:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199612011620.LAA26688@cbsky.cb.lucent.com> From: cbsky!dob@naserver1.cb.lucent.com (Dan O'Brien, 614.860.3292) To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP problem with current Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mea culpa. Thanks to Steve who sent private email that gave me the tip. > In article <199611292026.PAA23180@llama.bazzle.com> Dan writes: > > Where's the problem? Setup: /usr/sup is symlink to /var/usr/sup (var has extra space for things that grow) Problem: BANG! (that's me shooting myself in the foot) I was house cleaning and had rm -fr /var/usr/sup ``don't need that anymore, I'm using cvsup!'' :-( The symlink was left hanging /usr/sup -> /var/usr/sup Clean up was several days before trying cvsup so there was a disconnect in the synapses... > > I started getting this the other day. Same error each time, > > just different file numbers. > > > > Connected to cvsup.FreeBSD.org > > Updater failed: Updater error: Cannot create "/usr/sup/src-base/#cvs.cvsup-23114.0": File exists > Strange. Next time it happens, could you please send me the following info: > If it's stopped happening, please let me know that, too. It's stopped. Fix was to mkdir /var/usr/sup and all is well. The error message was what threw me off. > Thanks, No, thank you for CVSUP and to Steve for the tip. Sorry for exposing my stupidity to the list. I'll slink back to the shadows... > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth Dan