unexpected softupdate inconsistency

[Mark Sergeant]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 01:10, Stephen Bader wrote:
> Just for my information if I ever run into this in the future, what do you
> mean by 'use vim on the dir entry'?
> 

vim /usr/ports/editors/vim gives the following output ...

" Press ? for keyboard shortcuts
" Sorted by name (.bak,~,.o,.h,.info,.swp,.obj at end of list)
"= /usr/ports/editors/vim/
../
files/
Makefile
distinfo
pkg-descr
pkg-plist
~         

you are then able to edit the directory and what files it sees under
that directory (careful it's easy to break things). So for example if
the above included work/ which from an ls I can see is not there and a
rm -rf of /usr/ports/editors/vim was failing then you could edit
/usr/ports/editors/vim and remove the offending entry which should then
enable you to remove that directory (hope this isn't too confusing).

Cheers,

Mark

> -Steve
> 
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> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:23, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:21:30 +1000
> > >
> > > Mark Sergeant <msergeant at snsonline.net> wrote:
> > > > In situations like this it can be useful to use vim on the dir entry
> > > > that is affected and remove the invalid filenames. This has worked for
> > > > me before.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply. Have to admit that it would have never occured to
> > > me to do this. Good idea.
> > >
> > > Did you experience this often? I'm worried. Never had something like
> > > this before.
> >
> > You should watch that system - filesystems going bad out of the blue are
> > usually a warning sign of failing hardware (though not necessarily the hdd
> > itself, might be power issues, bad memory, etc.).
> >
> > --
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> >
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