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Re: [MiNT] 1-18-cur trunk stability issues
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11/29/11 21:22, Mark Duckworth wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/29/11 19:16, Mark Duckworth wrote:
>>>> On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Jean-François Lemaire wrote:
>>>>> NVDI is the way to go for the Radeon anyway. Trunk is working quite fine for
>>>>> me. Well, there are a few issues with the VDI, and I've known MiNT to be more
>>>>> solid, but it's nothing to do with the CTPCI.
>>>> Speaking of this my nvdi.prg binary is gone. Here is why
>>>>
>>>> I went to rename it in a console session. I simply did mv nvdi.prg nvdi.prgx
>>>>
>>>> Notice the typo. This was on my boot partition which is fat explicitly without vfat support. The error message it gave was something like "error source and destination are the same file". After the error message it was gone.
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing mv simply deleted it half way through operations? Is this expected behavior?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I've just tested here and it works just fine.
>>>
>>> Maybe you have a broken "mv" utility ?
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>>
>>>
>> Did you test in the same way as this?
>>
>> root@washi:/c/auto>mv nvdi.prg nvdi.prgx
>> mv: `nvdi.prg' and `nvdi.prgx' are the same file
>> root@washi:/c/auto>ls -la nvdi.prg
>> ls: nvdi.prg: No such file or directory
>> root@washi:/c/auto>
>>
>> This is a filesystem without vfat.
>>
>>
> Yes, exactly that, and mine is without vfat too.
>
> mv --version
> mv (GNU coreutils) 8.14
> Packaged by Gentoo (8.14 (p1))
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
>
> Alan.
>
So I will probably find the same problem as Mark with my EasyMiNT
install - will let you know
Paul