Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:15:02 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> To: FreeBSD STABLE Mailing List <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: create dir but install right afterwards fails. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006231512550.1994-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006231005550.570-100000@localhost>
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Follow up: Somehow the problem is unrelated to softupdates. And I bet it is related to make ordering the actions in the wrong way. i'll try without -j (forgot that I'd added it). And add the dir create as an extra in other cases in order to make it create it earlier. Sorry about the bogus report. Nick On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Nick Hibma wrote: > > [Please CC, I am not on -stable] > > The following occurs frequently on one of my machines running 4.0-STABLE > of some weeks ago. A problem in softupdates is the only explanation I > can come up with. > > mkdir -p /some/dir/qstream > install -c -p -m 0644 qstream.cpp /some/dir/qstream/qstream.cpp > install: mkstemp: /some/dir/INS@5648 for /some/dir/qstream.cpp: No such file or directory > > Now this works fine on 5.0-CURRENT, Linux, Win2000 and Win98, but on a > slowish (Pentium II (265.91-MHz 686-class CPU)) this happens almost > every time I run the build (of about a 1000 files. It happens always > with the samples, but in different places. > > Looking at the cvs logs for the softupdates related files I see that > stable is quite a few revisions behind. Any chance that the problem has > been solved somewhere between 1.57 and 1.69? I had a quick look and saw > that there were some bugfixes that might relate to this problem. > Unfortunately I don't have the time to try it out at the moent. > > I will switch off softupdates and see whether that helps, but I am > pretty sure it will, as directory updates are slower and there is a good > chance that the glitch will not show up if it is not softupdates > related. > > Let me know if you need access to the machine to try things out. > > Cheers, > > Nick > > -- > n_hibma@webweaving.org > n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project > http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ > > > -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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