Actually the good news is that the problems I see with the XFree86-contrib port are absolutely reproducible. To be sure I set the test case up on a different set of machines than the pair at home on which I first noticed it.
I'll dig a little more this weekend and perhaps I can correlate my ktrace data against the tcpdump trace. -Chris On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: as...@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) > * > * * From: Chris Timmons <skyn...@opus.cts.cwu.edu> > * > * * make: don't know how to make Makefiles. Stop > * > * I've seen similar things, but they went away when I reduced the load > * (other compilations in my case) on the server. How busy is your > * server? > > Forgot to mention, this happens with a read-only NFS tree too. I was > running builds on the client with a shared /usr/ports and WRKDIRPREFIX > pointing to a local directory, and the build will topple over in the > middle unable to find a Makefile on the server or something. > > That is the problem that went away with the server load. > > Satoshi > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message