Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:15:59 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dangling symlink in /usr/compat/linux Message-ID: <20010205091559.A5563@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <3A7DFC47.C76A9872@FreeBSD.org>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:05:11PM -0800 References: <3A7D28EA.9EF46BAE@gorean.org> <20010204112342.A15191@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <3A7DFC47.C76A9872@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello Doug, Sorry for the belated answer, I hit the hay in the meantime... but now, good morning to everybody outta there:-) On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:05:11PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Ummm... duh. :) I confirmed this on two machines. OK I think I nailed it:-) I took a trip to the /var/db/pkg directory, it was very educational:-) /var/db/pkg/linux_base-6.1/+CONTENTS, the offending line in my installled copy: @exec ln -sf ../X11R6/lib/X11 %D/usr/lib/X11 @unexec rm %D/usr/lib/X11 But the port that actually did something to that directory was linux_devtools. It puts the config directory for X11 there. So you may very much be correct... unless you install linux_devtools, there may be no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory at all. So short workaround: install linux_devtools:-) Long workaround: Take a long hard look at what's going on before posting to say that *it works for me* /*note to myself */ Solution: ? ( Maybe create the directory once we symlink to it? Seems like a good idea... ) (Most probably this problem never surfaced before because the maintainers had both ports installed on their systems.) Luckily, the date on the directories tipped me off, since I installed the devtools port only two days later... > Have you installed any linux X apps other than real player? That and > netscape are all I have installed. No, only Netscape, RP, Flash plugin and linux-jdk are linux apps on my system (oh yes and that unwieldy beast, Star Office) all from ports, except for RP which I downloaded quite some time ago and installed by hand and had no reason to upgrade ever since... but most of these do not put anything under the /usr/compat/linux/ hierarchy at all, but rather prefer /usr/local. > > (I installed linux-base quite some time ago but I know it works because I > > use RealPlayer every day:-) > > Me too. Using it right now:-) Good line quality from Charleston, SC. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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