Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 13:16:30 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: jbarrm@panix.com (Barry Masterson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another 2.1.7 upgrade & no bin dist Message-ID: <199703292016.NAA22875@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970329132428.206A-100000@jbarrm.dialup.access.net> from "Barry Masterson" at Mar 29, 97 01:34:11 pm
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It seems that Barry Masterson said: > > I just finished another CDROM upgrade. I suppose it would be > 2.1.7 -> 2.1.7 this time, except that the bin distribution still > could not be installed. The message at the end was the same as > last week: > > Couldn't extract the following distributions: > bin catpages > > and > > We couldn't even extract the bin distribution. This upgrade > should be considered a failure and started from the beginning. > > This time I used the boot.flp that was on the installation CD, > rather than using the one from ftp.freebsd.org, as I did last week. [snip] I've encountered the same set of problems trying a virgin install from the 2.1.7 CD-ROM. > The actual steps I went through are listed at the end, but more > interesting are the DEBUG messages from VTY2. Below are the last > few lines from VTY2, the buffer only goes back so far. I copied > these by hand and believe they are accurate: [snip] > DEBUG: distExtract: parent: (none), me: bin > DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.inf from CDROM > DEBUG: Parsing attributes file for distribution bin > DEBUG: Parse config: Invalid character 'P' at line 0 > DEBUG: Finished parsing 0 attributes > DEBUG: Trying to match attribute `pieces' > DEBUG: Request for catpages/catpages.inf from CDROM > DEBUG: Request for catpages/catpages.tgz from CDROM > DEBUG: switching back to VTY1 Same here. I've been too busy to track this down since then. Also, can someone clarify whether the vty which is selected by ALT-F1 is VTY1 (as the debug messages indicate) *or* vty0??? I've pointed this out in previous releases and never got a definitive answer... --don
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