On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:33:44PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote: > > Yesterday I installed OpenBSD 4.3 release from CD. I copied both > > PORTS_TA.GZ and SRC_TAR.GZ to /tmp. I extracted the ports to /usr/, and > > while extracting src, I tried to make libsndfile in the ports tree. I > > got "Abort trap". I tried other commands as well but I got the same. > > Shell buildin commands just worked. I couldn't even halt my system, it > > gave me the same error. > > You extracted the source in / instead of /usr/src. As a result, almost > all commands have been overwritten with similarly-named directories > containing their sources. > > Reinstall, and do not make this mistake a second time.
(Miod: oopz, typed 'r' (reply) again instead of 'L' (group reply)) Uhw.. Pretty sucky. But I can laugh with my mistake. I think I've read this in the Unix haters handbook; it's to easy to make big mistakes in UNIX. Ah, here it is..(1) You're probably, right. I made that typo. (I thought my error-report would me much to short to be usefull. :-) ) (1) http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf , page 59
