Unexpected soft update inconsistency

[Thomas Schlesinger]

Am Sonntag, 11. Juni 2006 00:17 schrieb walt:

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>
> I'm thinking that the soft-update-inconsistency error may have been
> just a red-herring due to a bad sector -- but the 'write error'
> is also occurring in the absence of bad sectors, and was already
> happening on DF-current as long ago as April 25.
>
> As an aside -- firefox pulled in and installed 37 other pkgsrc
> packages as dependencies with not one error, before starting to
> build firefox itself.  The only 'write error' I've seen is during
> the building of firefox.

Walt,

I don't know, if it is interesting for you anymore, but I've had a "write 
error" yesterday while doing an "cvs up -dP" in /usr/pkgsrc, though there was 
enough place on /usr.

Thomas