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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /bin/true was missing on two systems
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:37:25 -0700

I had the same missing /bin/true problem, but a recast of coreutils
fixed it. I thought same as you, Paul that another spell thought it
owned it, but gaze from and other searches didn't help.

Seth

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:35:24PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> The most likely reason for /bin/true getting removed is that another
> package thinks it owns /bin/true.. there are none on my system (gaze
> from /bin/true), does anything other than coreutils own it on anyones
> system? It's not a protected file, should it be?
>
> The --fix can determin that the file is owned by someone else, it will
> emit an error but do nothing, do you have the exact text of the error?
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Somehow, the "/bin/true" got deleted on two of my systems, so I had to
> > recast coreutils. Because of this thing missing, many spells did not
> > cast successfully, e.g. GCC. I also notices that frequently "cast --fix"
> > will see the error but not recast the spell. I think these are all
> > intermittent, but I'd be interested if anyone has any ideas. Thanks!
> >
> > Sergey.
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