From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 9:55:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D8237B424 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 09:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4PGqfk25851; Fri, 25 May 2001 12:52:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B0E8E4A.C7AE82CD@iowna.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:54:34 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chimon Yeung Cc: UNIX Subject: Re: Download X-window problem References: <3B0E8480.5ED375A6@fremont.sourcee.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chimon Yeung wrote: > > Hello, > > I tried to add x-window from the ports. When I got to the point of > reading successfully from ftp, I got stuck on that screen forever. I > tried several times. > > "Adding packages/All/XFree86-server-4.0.3_1.tgz from > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org > Package XFree86-Server-4.0.3_1 read successfully - waiting for > pkg_add(1)" How long is forever? a pkg_add(1) can take quite a while if it's a big package. Also, check disk space on the partitions, if it's low, pkg_add might have problems extracting & installing. While the process is running (and apparently frozen) switch to another console and run systat in the vmstat mode. Watch your disk usage and processor usage, if either one is high, it's probably just taking a while to do its work. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message