make install: tar: could not chdir to '(null)'

[Boris Samorodov]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:38:54 +0100 (CET) Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> A few days ago, my FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE based tester (i386) started to fail 
> in building packages, most notably lang/gcc40, lang/gcc41 and above.

>   % make install
>   ldconfig: /files/pfeifer/porttest/gcc40/lib/gcc-4.0.4: ignoring directory not owned by root
>   ldconfig: mkstemp(/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints.iWE9fy): Permission denied
>   % make package
>   ===>  Building package for gcc-4.0.4,1
>   tar: could not chdir to '(null)'

>   pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>   Creating package /sw/test/FreeBSD/ports/pcvs/gcc40/gcc-4.0.4,1.tbz
>   Registering depends: ldconfig_compat-1.0_8 libiconv-1.9.2_2.
>   Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/sw/test/FreeBSD/ports/pcvs/gcc40/gcc-4.0.4,1.tbz'
>   *** Error code 1

> Has any of you ever seen anything like this?  This also affects ports
> which test just fine on other machines (6-CURRENT, for example) and
> have been testing fine on this machine.

> I tried to track this down, but failed so far.  From what I can tell,
> there have been no changes on this machines which might trigger this.

A CPU cooler full of dust / mulfunctionning?


WBR
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