Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:15:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.7 (src-2.1 0291) /stand/sysinstall Won't Install Emacs Package Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970316113608.176B-100000@pinky.tcn.net>
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I have applied the delta's to my 2.1.7 (CD base delta) up to 291, rebuilt the kernel, made world successfully, rebooted and tried again to install Emacs using /stand/sysinstall with absolutely no success. /stand/sysinstall gets to the screen displaying Information Dialog Located INDEX, now reading package data from it ... and that's all she wrote. I have waited for several minutes and seen no disk or CD activity at all. I finally ^C it and abort the installation. I see no sysinstall.debug file or error messages anywhere. (As an aside this ^C exit seems to leave the cdrom /dev busy so I can't mount /cdrom until I run /stand/sysinstall again and successfully add a package and exit gracefully.) HOWEVER, if I su to root and enter mount /cdrom pkg_add -v /cdrom/packages/editors/emacs-19.34b.tgz then a flurry of disk/cd activity follows and emacs is installed - and even works! I conclude that there is a flaw in /stand/sysinstall's handling of the emacs package. Hmmm. I just tried to pop out and /stand/sysinstall again to see the exact cdrom busy errors and, with the 2.1.7 CD still mounted on /cdrom I get the error User Confirmation Requested Warning: The CD currently in the drive is either not a FreeBSD CD or it is an older (pre 2.1.5) FreeBSD CD which does not have a version number on it. Do you wish to use this CD anyway? when I try to select media as CDROM. When I try to exit from /stand/sysinstall it tries several times to umount the cdrom from /dist so perhaps the above error message is a result of trying to mount the CD in two places? ---- Ken
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