From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 22:16:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA18268 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 22:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA18256 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 22:16:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trepan.io.org (trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id WAA17555 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 22:16:21 -0700 Received: (from batsy@localhost) by trepan.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA11860; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 01:15:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 01:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: jamie To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: SIGPIPE in jun12 SNAP install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. I have also lost my partition table, but I think that I deserved it. (MAKEDEV all :)) I have got it installed a few times without a hitch, but then it barfs when I try to add packegs or X. I am doing a network install over ethernet, and I have also tried using the master site. BTW, it doesn't seem to want to recognize $PATH very well either, but maybe that's another config error on my part. The big problem is the SIGPIPE error though. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear the m as the 12-16 hours that I have spent on this aren't as fun as the first 3 were:) A fish walks into a bar, completely skewing all laws of probablility in the universe which, subsequently, implodes. Some Guy Named Jamie batsy@io.org