> > >--- Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>Can anyone explain this? > >>% /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /mydist/9 > >>open: No such file or directory > >>This on a directory where genhdlist has worked in > >>the past... > >> > >>Obviously something has gone missing, but I can't > >>figure out what it is > >>(RedHat/base and RedHat/RPMS are there, of course. > >> > >>Also, I'm struggling hard right now to refrain from > >>saying what I really > >>mean about people who would write "No such file or > >>directory", and omit > >>the file name... > >> > >>-- > >>Toralf > >> > >> > > > > > >hi, > > > >check the file's permissions. > > > >does this help ? > > > > > No. What file???? > > Maybe you didn't notice - the main problem here is that the error > message doesn't include a file name, and there are about 1600 files to > choose from. > > But I figured it out - there was a dangling symlink in the RPMS > directory. Took me *hours* to track down. Actually, I ended up updated > genhdlist so that it would print a better error message - the rest was > easy. A patch has been submitted at bugzilla.redhat.com... > > - Toralf Running genhdlist (or any other program you have a similar problem with) under strace will show you which file it failed to find.
