"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 06:55:01PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>> On 09/04/2004 10:12 AM, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>> > Automatic build of cernlib_2004.01.20-6 on aahz by sbuild/m68k 1.170.5
>> > Build started at 20040904-1331
>> >
>> > So it should be ready by monday evening.
>
> Unless it fails I should have said...
>
> rebuild archive library libpdflib804.a in /mclibs/pdf
> Sun Sep 5 14:08:20 CEST 2004
> Sun Sep 5 14:09:15 CEST 2004
> ranlib libpdflib804.a
> ranlib: libpdflib804.a: Input/output error
> make[4]: *** [libpdflib804.a] Error 1
That does sound like a bad disk. Any FS errors in dmesg?
It could be "No space left on device" but that should give that error.
> (gdb) run libpdflib804.a
> Starting program: /usr/bin/ranlib libpdflib804.a
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
> symbols found).../usr/bin/ranlib:
> libpdflib804.a: Input/output error
>
> Program exited with code 01.
>
> I have no idea what the problem is, the chroot partition is only half full,
> more than 2GB free space available. There also should be enough memory, but
> if it ran out of memory, it would have said so, wouldn't it?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 126992 114452 12540 0 3360 39988
> -/+ buffers/cache: 71104 55888
> Swap: 261632 22276 239356
>
> This is after it failed of course... repeatedly calling free duirng another
> ranlib run, does not show any memory problem, the swap space is never
> touched.
>
> Christian
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