From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 29 00:24:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 46A6C16A403 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2C443D49 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:24:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GdyTN-0005Cx-0G for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:24:21 -0400 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost.localnet.local [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9T0Qu6w046527 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:26:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9T0QuQh046526 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:26:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:26:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <4543E6D1.3050704@teksavvy.com> <4543F29C.2020205@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: <4543F29C.2020205@teksavvy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610281926.56419.lane@joeandlane.com> X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79a9e6f42f67158ccd3eefba88744ba959350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Subject: Re: Unable to get fetch expat-2.0.0._1 from selected media X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:24:24 -0000 On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:15, Matthew Pope wrote: > Addendum (clarification) to my question: > - When I boot from the Hard disk, and start /stand/sysinstall with FTP1 > as the source (since CDROM as source doesn't work), when the Xorg > packages are attempted to be added, the download from the FTP server > completes but at the end a quick error messages flashes, and then in its > place a message is emitted: > "add of package expat-2.0.0_1 aborted, error code 1 - > Please check the debug screen for more info." > The same message is repeated for these libraries: > perl-5.8.8 > xorg-manpages-6.9.0 > xorg-documents-6.9.0 > xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1 > Thanks, > Matthew > P.S. Where is the debug screen? > > Matthew Pope wrote: > > Environment: > > FreeBSD 6.1 (p10) Release > > Asus motherboard on Intel P4 > > IDE drives > > Realtek network adaptor chipset (no problems so far with that) > > ATAPI CDROM/writer > > Behind firewall. (no problems so far with that) > > > > Hello, > > I'd like to add the xorg distribution set to my existing FreeBSD > > system recently upgraded to release 6.1. > > A) When I boot from the Hard disk and attempt to load the distribution > > from the CD-ROM (Disk 0 as requested), I get: > > "unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media" > > > > B) When I boot from either the hard disk, or the CD-ROM, and try to > > source xorg from a FreeBSD FTP server, I get: > > "unable to fetch expat-2.0.0_1 from selected media" > > > > C) I've noted through trial and error that when booting from the Hard > > disk, I need to remove the "-p10" from the release name in the options > > screen or it will reject all FTP servers as not being able to source > > for my distribution. This is ephemeral and not related to my > > question, more a bug report actually. > > > > Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or a debug path would be helpful. > > Thanks, > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Matthew, I think you could probably shortcut some of this by doing: portinstall x11/xorg after logging in as root if you get: portinstall: Command not found then do this: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade make all install rehash Then retry portinstall x11/xorg email me if that doesn't work for you lane