Dear all,

I am trying to uninstall software and I get the following error:-

cp: cycle detected: /apps/SNL/SNL/Swiftnet50/lib/lb1

What does this "cp: cycle detected" relate to?

Thanks

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On 16 Nov 2006 03:02:43 -0800
Richard.Warden@sma.co.uk wrote:

> I am trying to uninstall software and I get the following error:-
>
> cp: cycle detected: /apps/SNL/SNL/Swiftnet50/lib/lb1
>
> What does this "cp: cycle detected" relate to?

Is this a package you're trying to un-install?

The message comes from the cp command, not from pkgrm. IMHO it's
specific to the uninstall script of the software, and has little if
anything to do with Solaris 10.

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It is indeed an application I am trying to unistall, using the
appropriate uninstall routine shipped with the app.

I think this might be something to do with the link behind this file,
in that the cp command is trying to copy the file twice. Does that
sound plausable?



On 16 Nov, 11:52, Stefaan A Eeckels <hoend...@ecc.lu> wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2006 03:02:43 -0800
>
> Richard.War...@sma.co.uk wrote: 
> 
> 
>
> The message comes from the cp command, not from pkgrm. IMHO it's
> specific to the uninstall script of the software, and has little if
> anything to do with Solaris 10.
>
> --
> Stefaan A Eeckels
> --
>    The one thing IT really needs to outsource is the freakin' clueless
>  managers that don't understand that there are more possibilities than
> chaos on the one hand and the reduction of alternatives to zero on the
> other.                    -- Richard Hamilton in comp.sys.sun.hardware

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Richard.Warden@sma.co.uk writes:
> I am trying to uninstall software and I get the following error:-
>
> cp: cycle detected: /apps/SNL/SNL/Swiftnet50/lib/lb1
>
> What does this "cp: cycle detected" relate to?

It's related to the 'cp' command.  The "cycle detected" message means
that someone is doing a recursive copy ("cp -r"; perhaps as part of a
packaging script) and the cp command ended up visiting the same
directory more than once.

I don't _think_ that should happen unless the file system is corrupt
-- e.g., by creating a hard link to a directory.  (But I'm not
certain.)

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On 16 Nov 2006 04:52:58 -0800, Richard.Warden@sma.co.uk <Richard.Warden@sma.co.uk> wrote:[vb
col=seagreen]
> It is indeed an application I am trying to unistall, using the
> appropriate uninstall routine shipped with the app.[/vbcol]

1. Don't top-post.  It makes us have to scroll down to see what the heck
you're answering.

2. If you'd give the actual command you used, that would help.

> I think this might be something to do with the link behind this file,
> in that the cp command is trying to copy the file twice. Does that
> sound plausable?

Hard to say.  Need more info.  What does the vendor say?

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James Carlson <james.d.carlson@sun.com> writes:

>I don't _think_ that should happen unless the file system is corrupt
>-- e.g., by creating a hard link to a directory.  (But I'm not
>certain.)


Nope:

mkdir a
ln -s . a/foo
cp -r a b
cp: cycle detected: a/foo

cp follows symlinks.

use cp -rH

Casper

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Casper H.S. Dik :
> James Carlson <james.d.carlson@sun.com> writes:
> 
>
>
> Nope:
>
> 	mkdir a
> 	ln -s . a/foo
> 	cp -r a b
> 	cp: cycle detected: a/foo
I do this in gentoo Linux, It is ok!

mkdir a
ln -s . a/foo
cd a
ls -l
lxwrxwrxwr .........   foo -> .
cd foo
pwd
a/foo
ls
foo
cd foo
pwd
a/foo/foo
...
It is such a thing!
>
> cp follows symlinks.
>
> use cp -rH
>
> Casper

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