Re: Normal files seen as directories ???
Hermann Schichl (herman@esi.ac.at)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:10:56 +0200
> Hello, I write this to hear if anybody else is experiencing this too ...
>
> Very often (let's say 50% of the times) when I compile something big
> (e.g. a big source RPM as in the following log) it fails with an error
> like the following :
>
>
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I.
> -I../../intl -I../../intl -I./../../panel
> -I../../panel -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\""/usr/share/locale"\"
> -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H
> -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -DGLIBTOP_INODEDB -DHAVE_LIBGTOP_SMP
> -DHAVE_LIBGTOP_SYSINFO -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H
> -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> -I/usr/lib/glib/include -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall
> -Wno-unused -c diskusage.c
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I.
> -I../../intl -I../../intl -I./../../panel
> -I../../panel -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\""/usr/share/locale"\"
> -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H
> -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -DGLIBTOP_INODEDB -DHAVE_LIBGTOP_SMP
> -DHAVE_LIBGTOP_SYSINFO -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H
> -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> -I/usr/lib/glib/include -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall
> -Wno-unused -c diskusage_read.c
> In file included from ../../panel/applet-widget.h:14,
> from diskusage.h:4,
> from diskusage_read.c:7:
> ../../panel/gnome-panel.h:7: directory `/usr/include/orb/orbit.h'
> specified in #include
> make[3]: *** [diskusage_read.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-core-1.0.9/applets/diskusage'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-core-1.0.9/applets'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-core-1.0.9'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
>
> It seems to me, from the error messages, that the file
> '/usr/include/orb/orbit.h' is at this stage seen as a directory.
> Note that after the failure said file looks really good and, in fact,
> retrying
> the compilation usually succeeds, so the problem doesn't seem to be at
> file-
> system level (on the disk I mean...)
>
> My computer is a pentium 133mhz with 64Mb ram
> The compiler is gcc version 2.7.2.3 and the distribution a RedHat 5.2
> I'm now using linux-2.2.11, but the same happened also with 2.2.9 at
> least.
>
> I'll be glad to provide other information if needed.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Lorenzo
>
I have seen things like this a few months ago on two computers, and it
turned out that the problem was with RAM timing on one of them and a
broken memory chip on the other one. So I would think it points to
a hardware issue.
Best regards
Hermann
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/