From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 14:48:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0325C37B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE2E43E65 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-65.59.70.57.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([65.59.70.57] helo=sparky) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17foxR-0005ar-00; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:48:37 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Chris Simpson" Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:49:00 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <002d01c24522$91812600$aa01010a@2k.amsurg.com> Message-Id: Subject: Re: Installation issue... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 8/16/2002 8:43:48 AM, "Chris Simpson" wrote: > > > From: "Chris Simpson" > To: > > Subject:Installation issue... > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:43:48 -0500 > > > > Hello! New guy on the list here... > [snip] > ANYWAY, I get to the point where it actually installs the packages, and then > it seems to lock up when it's installing cvsupit-3.1. There's no error > message, just this: > > ADDING PACKAGE/ALL/cvsupit-3.1.tgz From acd0c > > Package cvsupit-3.1 read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1) > > > That sounds like it would be a normal message, but in 2 attempts at install, > I've gotten the same thing. Is that a NIC problem? > Chris It's caused by the fact that cvsupit has a very large dependency named Modula-3 that takes forever to load. (Documentation somewhere mentions this, but I've forgotten where.) For some reason installing after you've finished with the basic system is a lot faster. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message