[Nix-dev] Re: RHEL5 Issues re-visited.

[Jeevakan Suresh]

Really? What commands are you running to get these errors? Its quite
possible that I missed something significant when testing this stuff
(which would mean my current system is subtly unstable).

I just installed coreutils and tried touch/cp/rm on a NFS mount and all
worked as expected.

Cheers
Jeeva.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: nix-dev-bounces at cs.uu.nl [mailto:nix-dev-bounces at cs.uu.nl] On
Behalf Of Peter Simons
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:03 AM
To: nix-dev at cs.uu.nl
Subject: [Nix-dev] Re: RHEL5 Issues re-visited.

Hi Jeevakan,

I tried installing Nix on a Linux/x86 system using your patches. The
good news is that everything compiles fine. The build errors I observed
on x86_64 didn't occur. The bad news is, however, that building with Red
Hat's kernel headers doesn't fix the RHEL5-related problems. For
example, attempts to access a network-mounted drive still fail with an
inexplicable "error 550", etc. It seems that Glibc 2.7 and Coreutils
6.12 just don't work on RHEL5 -- whether you build them with Red Hat's
kernel headers or the pristine ones doesn't make a difference. So far,
the only reliable way to install Nix on RHEL5 that I'm aware of is to
downgrade those packages to older versions.

Take care,
Peter

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