From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 2 08:12:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA19596 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA19591 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:12:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dolphin.inna.net (jamie@dolphin.inna.net [206.151.66.2]) by tyger.inna.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA25818; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:15:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:12:16 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2, 3.0 pkg_manage - where are you :-( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Jamie Bowden wrote: > > > Shame that seems to be broken. On three different installs now, two over > > ftp, and one from a cd I burned, sysinstall will freeze during package > > installation. Everything seems to be fine, and it starts installing > > packages okay, but it will freeze up after about 10 packages or so. > > Hmm. What says your console (Alt-F2)? If it says ``out of > processes'', i wouldn't be surprised. sysinstall runs as init, but > i've seen the above one time as well, due to there being many zombies > around. Apparently, sysinstall isn't very interested in the death of > its children. OTOH, it _sometimes_ is interested, and that was enough > to defeat the idea to install a global SIGCHILD handler. (Been there, > done that.) Itlooks normal, except that it's no longer having any output written to it. I go to alt-f4, and I can look at the process table, and see that everything looks normal. The ps table shows ~5 processes or so, but since sysinstall is init, and does alot internally, I didn't expect to see much more. Running it on an already built machine, and going into the packages area and telling to add more (or even finish the ones it missed) will cause it to freeze. As I stated above, it starts off just fine, either getting the package from a cd, or ftp site just fine, showing transfers, reporting on pkg_add, etc. Then it just hangs. Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.