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

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:47:18 -0700
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:22:37PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 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?
> 

Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des_at_freebsd.org>

-- 
Steve
Received on Tue Oct 21 2008 - 18:47:27 UTC

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