Installing Chrome OS fonts fails when repo is on filer

build/install-build-deps.sh

 #!/bin/bash -e
 
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # Script to install everything needed to build chromium (well, ideally, anyway)
 # See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions
 # and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuild64Bit
 
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 fi
 if test "$do_inst_syms" = "1"; then
   echo "Installing debugging symbols."
 else
   echo "Skipping installation of debugging symbols."
   dbg_list=
 fi
 
 # Install the Chrome OS default fonts.
 if test "$do_inst_chromeos_fonts" != "0"; then
+  echo
   echo "Installing Chrome OS fonts."
   dir=`echo $0 | sed -r -e 's/\/[^/]+$//'`
-  sudo $dir/linux/install-chromeos-fonts.py
+  if ! sudo $dir/linux/install-chromeos-fonts.py; then
+    echo "ERROR: The installation of the Chrome OS default fonts failed."
+    if [ `stat -f -c %T $dir` == "nfs" ]; then
+      echo "The reason is that your repo is installed on a remote file system."
+    else
+      echo "This is expected if your repo is installed on a remote file system."
+    fi
+    echo "It is recommended to install your repo on a local file system."
+    echo "You can skip the installation of the Chrome OS default founts with"
+    echo "the command line option: --no-chromeos-fonts."
+    exit 1
+  fi
 else
   echo "Skipping installation of Chrome OS fonts."
 fi
 
 # When cross building for arm on 64-bit systems the host binaries
 # that are part of v8 need to be compiled with -m32 which means
 # that basic multilib support is needed.
 if [ "$(uname -m)" = "x86_64" ]; then
   arm_list="$arm_list g++-multilib"
 fi
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              sed -e 's/[.]so[.][0-9].*/.so/' |
              sort -u); do
     [ "x${i##*/}" = "xld-linux.so" ] && continue
     [ -r "$i" ] && continue
     j="$(ls "$i."* | sed -e 's/.*[.]so[.]\([^.]*\)$/\1/;t;d' |
          sort -n | tail -n 1)"
     [ -r "$i.$j" ] || continue
     sudo ln -s "${i##*/}.$j" "$i"
   done
 fi