From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 08:39:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20065 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trepan.io.org (trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20053 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from batsy@localhost) by trepan.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA26148; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:39:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:39:31 -0400 (EDT) From: jamie To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu 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 Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Doug White 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. Actually it seemed that I was mising a library and I had to grab it from another machine. I wish I could remember the exact error now, but I have since installed everything else without many hitches. Sorry about that, but thanks for the interest:) -j The opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of my employer. In fact, it is likely that they are those of the aliens that abducted me and put a strange implant in my frontal lobe. Jamie Reid Junior Systems Administrator io.org/ican.net batsy@io.org