Re: installworld fails -> err code 71 -> too many levels of symbolic links

From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:22:37 +0100
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:00:02PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 04:30:13 am Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I'm rebuilding the world on i386 FBSD 8.0-currnet following the manual.
> > I cvsup'ed the source on 20-OCT-2008, made buildworld, built kernel,
> > installed kernel, rebooted into single user mode, and tried to installworld.
> > I got:
> > 
> > install: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: Too many levels
> > of symbolic links
> > *** Error code 71
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/srs/share/timedef.
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> I've had to just blow away /usr/share/locale/nb* and /usr/share/locale/no* to 
> get installworld to work.  Maybe ask DES as I think he changed some of them 
> to be symlinks instead of directories?

who's DES?

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Anton Shterenlikht
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