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authorEli Zaretskii2001-03-24 08:08:11 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii2001-03-24 08:08:11 +0000
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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/PROBLEMS22
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
179This was reported to happen when building Emacs on RedHat GNU/Linux 179This was reported to happen when building Emacs on RedHat GNU/Linux
180using a build directory automounted from Solaris (v5.6) file server, 180using a build directory automounted from Solaris (SunOS 5.6) file
181but it might not be limited to that configuration alone. Presumably, 181server, but it might not be limited to that configuration alone.
182the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk quickly enough, 182Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the files' data to disk
183and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for several seconds 183quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is left ``busy'' for
184after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes the subsequent 184several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping itself. This causes
185commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to fail with the 185the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped Emacs excutable to
186above message. 186fail with the above message.
187 187
188In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the 188In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the
189machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make 189machine 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
200options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as 200options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as
201`/etc/auto.home'. 201`/etc/auto.home'.
202 202
203Alternatively, when "make install" fails due to this problem, you 203Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for
204could wait for a few seconds and then type "make install" again. In 204a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case,
205one particular case, waiting for 10 or more seconds seemed to work 205waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
206around the problem. 206to 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