>>>>> "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. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
