[4527] in testers
Re: linux 8.4 update diagnostics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jul 1 00:46:51 2000
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To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:59:08 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:46:43 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> package not found in file index
I do not currently understand the source of this error, and don't know
what we can do about it.
> cannot remove <some_directory> - directory not empty
Some of these messages come from Red Hat RPMs and we can't do much
about it. Some of them come from our RPMs, and should not happen in
the future, since the 8.4 RPMs do not generally contain directories in
the file list.
> rmdir of / failed: No such file or directory
I'm not sure about this one. (ENOENT is, in fact, the error you get
from calling rmdir("/"); if you think about it, there is no directory
entry pointing to the root directory's inode, so it makes some sense.)
I do think these issues are important; sloppy diagnostics will lead to
uncorrected errors. Unfortunately, using more native tools makes it
harder to understand and control diagnostics, as we have seen many
times.
