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To: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
cc: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Installation woes 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jan 1997 01:31:32 CST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:53:33 -0800
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>> 3. After installing several packages, sysinstall start complaining that
>> there was some error and to check to other VTTY. In doing so, I see a lot
>> of "proc: system full" (or somthing similar to that, I'm not near the
>> machine right now).

   This is a known bug in the installation procedure for 2.1.5. Sysinstall
doesn't properly reap child processes (tar, gzip, etc), and the process
table will eventually overflow if you try to install too many packages.
Just reduce the number of packages down a bit and things should work.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project