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| author | Eli Zaretskii | 2001-03-24 08:08:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii | 2001-03-24 08:08:11 +0000 |
| commit | b4da93e1d052e49f2c544d141a468fbee8081410 (patch) | |
| tree | 0440ce44569636d9c9b7b7f34af1ecbe17cc0ad6 | |
| parent | 5b83f9c0951c960b3dd11efc394aaf4989798929 (diff) | |
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Minor wording changes in description of the Solaris NFS problems
resulting in "text file busy".
From Bill Richter <richter@math.northwestern.edu>.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 9541cf40533..39e0cf37b76 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS | |||
| @@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared' options.) | |||
| 177 | * Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. | 177 | * Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. |
| 178 | 178 | ||
| 179 | This was reported to happen when building Emacs on RedHat GNU/Linux | 179 | This was reported to happen when building Emacs on RedHat GNU/Linux |
| 180 | using a build directory automounted from Solaris (v5.6) file server, | 180 | using a build directory automounted from Solaris (SunOS 5.6) file |
| 181 | but it might not be limited to that configuration alone. Presumably, | 181 | server, but it might not be limited to that configuration alone. |
| 182 | the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk quickly enough, | 182 | Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk |
| 183 | and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for several seconds | 183 | quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for |
| 184 | after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes the subsequent | 184 | several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes |
| 185 | commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to fail with the | 185 | the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to |
| 186 | above message. | 186 | fail with the above message. |
| 187 | 187 | ||
| 188 | In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the | 188 | In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the |
| 189 | machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make | 189 | machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make |
| @@ -200,10 +200,10 @@ blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the | |||
| 200 | options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as | 200 | options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as |
| 201 | `/etc/auto.home'. | 201 | `/etc/auto.home'. |
| 202 | 202 | ||
| 203 | Alternatively, when "make install" fails due to this problem, you | 203 | Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for |
| 204 | could wait for a few seconds and then type "make install" again. In | 204 | a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case, |
| 205 | one particular case, waiting for 10 or more seconds seemed to work | 205 | waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed |
| 206 | around the problem. | 206 | to work around the problem. |
| 207 | 207 | ||
| 208 | * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _. | 208 | * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _. |
| 209 | 209 | ||