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Re: file corruption during emacs build on XFS logical volume

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Subject: Re: file corruption during emacs build on XFS logical volume
From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:45:16 +0000
In-reply-to: <1010069377.23328.15.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Steve Lord's message of "03 Jan 2002 08:49:37 -0600")
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begin  Steve Lord quotation:

> On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 03:03, Sean Neakums wrote:
>> begin  D. Stimits quotation:
>> I'm not getting any errors at the unpack stage.  I mentioned that I
>> was unpacking fresh for each try in order to establish that the tree
>> itself was not b0rked.  Note from my previous messages that the builds
>> have only failed when I built on XFS, and not when I built on ext2,
>> and that builds on XFS have succeeded when I use 2.4.14-pre7.  This
>> just doesn't feel random to me.
>> 
>
> Since I am building on a redhat based box, I am doing rpm builds not
> debian package builds, and the rpm version which appears friendly to
> this box is emacs-20 not emacs-21. Having said that, emacs is building
> OK for me here. It is difficult to tell if the problem you are seeing
> is in the true emacs build, or in the package generation. Can you tell,
> if it is the package generation then the rpm build is not a valid test
> case here.

I don't even get as far as generating packages when I build on XFS;
the part I mentioned about temacs re-appearing mysteriously happens
during the actual emacs21 build.

I can't remember if I've mentioned it before, but Ive run xfs_repair
on the FS in question, with no errors reported.  Ugh, this sure is
weird and crazy.

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