-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Kenneth Koym wrote: > >> Attn: Bug-coreutils@gnu.org >> Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this >> happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in another >> document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to spend >> hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said, "before >> going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal >> mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself, >> `/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2' >> what causes this?" > > What version of coreutils to you have installed? The "bug" here is the > misleading error message from mv as > /root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2 is not a subdir of > /root/.openoffice.org2
Wonder if the former is a symlink to the latter, and the "backup" wasn't created quite right... - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGr7k7M8hyUobTrERAkZ8AJ47rhH+SxQVSonQggEjDE5Ddum/TgCfdmVs tl7JRRvye2jdeEe0LnAPpdQ= =rITt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
