On Feb 18, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > A lot of people have reported such problems to the lists (mainly > core and devel) since the upgrade to the latest tar-1.16. It seems > to happen more often for big files (several MB) that are generated > at the end of the install process. > > No good guess as to what causes this has come forward so far. > > Here is a guess: Do you have any virus scanner software installed > or any haxie that might try to touch newly-created files?
Nothing. I have CrossOver CD Helper running, and the Parallels networking daemon (also FontExplorerXAutoload and EyeTV Helper) but they're not doing anything at the moment. > > Another one: Do you have a particularly slow disk, or do you have > heavy swapping ging on while the error happens? Default internal drive of a MacBook Pro. Downgrading tar to the stable distribution solved it. Maybe we could up the revision and patch the buggy code ourselves? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
