installworld fails - nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: too many levels of symbolic links

[Gregory W. MacPherson]

The problem is that both of the files:

/usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME

and 

/usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME

... are symbolic links ... to each other.

The solution is to remove one symlink and replace it with a real file as 
shown below:

rm -f /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME
touch /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME

Now /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME is a symbolic link and
/usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME is a real (albeot zero length)
file.

And, yes, someone ought to fix this in CVS.

-- Greg

> On Saturday 31 January 2009 07:09:39 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I'm upgrading from 7.1-prerelease to 7.1-stable. I followed the
> manual.
> > make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot,
> > make installworld fails with
> >
> > install: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: Too many levels of
> > symbolic links
> 
> Can you provide output of:
> ls -l /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.IS8859-1/LC_TIME
> 
> -- 
> Mel
> 
> Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
>     and never get to the software part.

-- 
Gregory W. MacPherson
Global Network Exploitation Specialist, CISSP
http://www.datasieve.net/greg/

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