Re: Ghost in the machine ? : .la file(s) getting emptied
Andrew Benton <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 04 May 2012 13:30:34 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just trying to upgrade a package on my LFS-7.1 system, and a > compile failed because /usr/lib64/libstdc++.la was not a valid > libtool archive. Too right - it was empty! Looking at ls -l it was > updated on 30th April (original install was on 8th April). > > Fortunately, my oldest backup was before that and I was able to > restore it. But I'm sure I've seen something similar, perhaps even > the same file, in the past few months (not necessarily on this > particular system). Looking at other updates, nothing (apart from > kernel upgrades) since 28th April until today. > > Anyone seen anything like this ? No, sorry. Could it be a hardware problem/bad disk sector? Have you run fsck? The other possibility is some sort of scripting error/bad sed but that's just speculation. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page