From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 21:23:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA05290 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA05282 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01768; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:24:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:24:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: jamie cc: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIGPIPE in jun12 SNAP install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, jamie wrote: > I have gone through the archives and I haven't found anything on this. > I have been trying to install the jun 12 SNAP and it almost gets there... > But, when I try to install the packages, I look in the "emergency VTY" > and it tells me that it can't pkg_add because of a SIGPIPE error. Someone > has pointed out to me that this may meant that (in all likelyhood) when > it tries to pipe something to tar, tar is no longer a process. His other > suggestion was that it may not be tar, but it seems that a command it > being piped to a dead process or non-existant string. What is the complete text of the error message(s)? A bad archive will cause this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major