On Tue, 2002-01-15 18:48:39 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote in message <20020115184839.M15285@lug-owl.de>: > I'm running the standard debian kernel that comes with a plain > installation on a R4k6 Indy. When installing packages (dpkg --install > ....) I sometimes get error messages that there have been too > many links in file name chain (-ELOOP). This only happens sometimes, > and is not reproduceable. So, if a package failed to install, I > can try it again, any may have success... > > Oh, this is on nfsroot... Well, I've just seen this in dmesg's output: kernel: nfs_refresh_inode: inode 424854012 mode changed, 0120777 to 0100000 I brute-force installed some packages, and magically, whenever I see the -ELOOP bug, I get (at least) one of the above messages:-) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw . jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 -- New APT-Proxy written in shell script -- http://lug-owl.de/~jbglaw/software/ap2/
