cp: cycle detected: Solaris 10 0606 smpatched

Can anyone please help me understand what happened here? I have never seen this error before. google shows no info. and the files were not copied.

bash-3.00# cp -r -p /opto/* /opt

cp: cannot access /opto/csw/bin/php5

cp: cycle detected: /opto/csw/lib/32

cp: cycle detected: /opto/csw/lib/i386

cp: cycle detected: /opto/csw/lib/mysql/i386

cp: cycle detected: /opto/csw/mysql4/lib/mysql/i386

cp: cycle detected: /opto/csw/bdb4/lib/32

cp: cycle detected: /opto/csw/bdb4/lib/i386

bash-3.00# ls -lt /opt/csw/lib/32

/opt/csw/lib/32: No such file or directory

bash-3.00# ls -lt /opt/csw/lib/i386

/opt/csw/lib/i386: No such file or directory

bash-3.00#

Regards.

[745 byte] By [_junkken] at [2007-11-26 9:11:34]