Unexpected soft update inconsistency

[Thomas Schlesinger]

Am Freitag, 9. Juni 2006 18:35 schrieb walt:
> I've been seeing 'write error' while compiling firefox.  After
> each write error I reboot and run fsck which produces the same
> error each time:
>
> LINK COUNT DIR I=2 OWNER=root MODE=40755
> SIZE=512 MTIME=[date] COUNT 21 SHOULD BE 22
> LINK COUNT INCREASING
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> I tell it to correct the error and all seems fine until the
> next 'write error' while trying to build firefox.  The error
> always occurs just after the message 'leaving directory <foo>'
> so it's not entirely random the way an overheating CPU might
> behave.
>
> Any ideas how I can debug this?
>
> Anyone else seeing the same thing?

At least the "write errors" do I have, too, when building certain packages 
with bmake. When I do a "bmake install clean" again, bmake continues building 
the package.

Thomas