Remi Mommsen writes: > > Exactly, which is why I suspected tar: it doesn't seem to > > have unpacked the tarball properly, and it created a bad > > directory entry. In my cases, it wasn't that a file was bad, > > it was that a directory was bad (i.e. doing an 'ls' on the > > directory containing the file that patch had tried to patch > > caused a locked process too). > > > > My recent problems with postfix were similar: it seemed like > > postfix was trying to write a file into a directory that was > > hosed somehow. > > > I've seen similar things on my machine (newest fink and OS X > 10.2.1). I do have three suspects: the fink tar (/sw/bin/tar), > the Symantec FileSaver or Virusscan (both from Symantec System > Works with newest patches applied). Do you have any Symantec > s/w installed on your systems? Which tar are you using (Apple > provides one too)?
Yes, I have Norton Anti-Virus installed on the Mac that's exhibiting the symptoms. That never occured to me, but it's entirely likely that this is the culprit. V. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
