Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!prism!dali.cc.gatech.edu!ken From: ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: 2.0.1 update error Message-ID: <27342@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 25 Apr 91 23:23:16 GMT References: <1991Apr19.191312.3785@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr24.053159.27641@panix.uucp> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Reply-To: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Organization: The House Of Fun Lines: 26 In article <1991Apr24.053159.27641@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes: >sorensen@athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) writes: >> >>cannot unlink current (errno:26) >>Cannot create (errno:26) >>33586 blocks >> >>Errno 26 is something about a text file in use, I think, and >>I'm doing this as root and the file is writeable...what could be up? > >This is really obnoxious. I think this is a shared library which is used >by some active program. I had similar though different problems with this >same file. > Anyone who does an upgrade like this on a live system deserves anything and everything they get. It's not "obnoxious", it's the way shared libs work (you might try and figure it out some time). Try and do the upgrade from the A/UX startup shell. You might be suprised how easy it is. -- ken seefried iii "I'll have what the gentleman ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu on the floor is having..."