Known bug. glibc contains a bug regarding reading directory contents
over NFS (it internaly interprets some opaque values). Nothing
we can fix in our compat code.

mount_nfs -X should help you with this (see BUGS section of compat_linux(8)).

Jaromir

J. D. Fisher & wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am not quite sure if I found a bug or not.  And I'm not sure if there is
> really anything anyone can really do about it if there is one.  But I would like
> to know if anybody else might be having the same problems.  Or if anyone has
> any comments or suggestions about it.
> 
> It seems that when staroffice (so51a_lnx_01.tar) uses the suse_*-7.3 and tries
> to view a nfs mounted directory, it will only show you some of the files and
> directories under that mount point.  But when I did a pkg_delete on the
> suse_*-7.3 (listing of the files I deleted are shown below), and then make
> install for the suse_*-6.4 packages (listing of the files I installed are
> below), staroffice was able to see the files and directories without any
> problem.
> 
> Now this operation was being done on NetBSD 1.6_BETA5 from
> "ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-6/tar_files/src/".
> The dates on the files I downloaded were "Sat Aug 10 01:28:00 2002".
> If that helps.  But it doesn't seem to be a problem with NetBSD 1.6_BETA5.
> 
> 
> If I can provide any more information please email me.
> 
> John Fisher
> jdf@rse.com
> 
> 
> By the way, I tried to compile openoffice-0.0.0.641nb1 and got this:
> 
> ===> Building for openoffice-0.0.0.641nb1
> /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :2 &
> ulimit -d `ulimit -H -d`;tcsh -c "setenv DISPLAY '':2''; cd
> /usr/local/src/pkgsrcstuff/pkgsrc/misc/openoffice/work/oo_641_src/config_office/
> .. && ./bootstrap && source *.Set && dmake"
> ./bootstrap: Command not found.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> suse_*-7.3 Packages
> --------------------
> suse_audio-7.3
> suse_base-7.3
> suse_compat-7.3
> suse_glx-7.3
> suse_gtk-7.3
> suse_libc5-7.3
> suse_libjpeg-7.3
> suse_libpng-7.3
> suse_linux-7.3
> suse_x11-7.3nb2
> suse_xforms-7.3
> 
> suse_*-6.4 Packages
> --------------------
> suse_audio-6.4
> suse_base-6.4nb5
> suse_compat-6.4
> suse_glx-6.4nb1
> suse_gtk-6.4
> suse_libc5-6.4
> suse_libjpeg-6.4nb1
> suse_libpng-6.4
> suse_linux-6.4
> suse_x11-6.4nb1
> suse_xforms-6.4
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> E-Mail: J. D. Fisher & <jdf@rse.com>
> Date: 16-Aug-2002
> Time: 11:40:35
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 


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