>>>>> "mattias" == Mattias Dahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

mattias> Hi,
mattias> I discovered a strange thing when I tried to install the Loki game Rune on
mattias> a beta3 installation. The game worked fine in Mandrake 8.1 and Redhat 7.2,
mattias> but refused to start on Mandrake 8.2beta3 because of a missing "Core.so".

Will be fixed in 22mdk, just is the first report that I had of failing
symlinks.

/me decides that he needs to bought some Loky games :(

mattias> As it turned out "Core.so" is a symlink, present in a directory called
mattias> System on the Rune CD. But there's something about that symlink that beta3
mattias> doesn't like at all! It freaks out when I try to copy it and even when I
mattias> just do an ls. Is there a known problem with symlinks on CD-ROMs?

mattias> An ls gives "Cannot read symbolic link Core.so: Invalid argument". What
mattias> happened between 8.1 and 8.2beta3 that caused this?

mattias> And it's *not* just the Core.so symlink. In the same directory there's a
mattias> symlink called "ucc", which behaves in the same way.


Later, Juan.


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