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diff etc/PROBLEMS @ 36969:e6c28065a5f9
Minor wording changes in description of the Solaris NFS problems
resulting in "text file busy".
From Bill Richter <richter@math.northwestern.edu>.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:08:11 +0000 |
| parents | fcca57f520e5 |
| children | 9477128b4fad |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Mar 23 17:50:41 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sat Mar 24 08:08:11 2001 +0000 @@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ * Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. This was reported to happen when building Emacs on RedHat GNU/Linux -using a build directory automounted from Solaris (v5.6) file server, -but it might not be limited to that configuration alone. Presumably, -the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk quickly enough, -and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for several seconds -after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes the subsequent -commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to fail with the -above message. +using a build directory automounted from Solaris (SunOS 5.6) file +server, but it might not be limited to that configuration alone. +Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk +quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for +several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes +the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to +fail with the above message. In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make @@ -200,10 +200,10 @@ options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as `/etc/auto.home'. -Alternatively, when "make install" fails due to this problem, you -could wait for a few seconds and then type "make install" again. In -one particular case, waiting for 10 or more seconds seemed to work -around the problem. +Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for +a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case, +waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed +to work around the problem. * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.