Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 06:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack ofemailaddress Message-ID: <199911091440.GAA06399@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/14744; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu> To: "Brett Taylor" <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack ofemailaddress Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 06:34:09 -0800 Brett, Running the package from pkg_add is probably how you say, just say no. But if you run it from sysinstall (realize, at that point, new user, I didn't know how to run pkg_add other than the initial sysinstall), you get a looping prompt on a different screen, you can't actually respond to it. - Jay -----Original Message----- From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Jay Krell <jay.krell@cornell.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 8:23 AM Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack ofemailaddress >Hi, > >On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Jay Krell wrote: > >> The package install hung. I had to switch to another console and kill >> stuff to get /stand/sysinstall to proceed. (very similar behavior to >> the tk/e package install which hangs (or loops forever) asking you to >> accept the license agreement.) > >Okay - I see what the problem is. The problem is _not_ with tkseti, but >the setiathome install script that gets run after installation. > >Again, this is still not the ports problem - maybe you think it's making >too much of an assumption to assume that you'll try to use a network >program wo/ your networking set up, but it's still not a package problem. > >The package will work fine if you just say "no" and set up the program >later when you're networking IS set up. > >This PR should be closed as it's an operator error, not a package error. > >Brett >***************************************************** >Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * >Dept of Chem and Physics * >Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * >Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * >Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * >***************************************************** > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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