Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:07:04 -0500 From: "Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt" <avonder@axitek.com> To: "Chris Johnson" <cjohnson@palomine.net>, "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> Cc: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: something not quite right with snapshots Message-ID: <018b01c14dd0$ed1fb8e0$8e18a8c0@online.hallmark.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005134642.04cca060@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20011005134642.04cca060@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20011005145404.04a1aae0@marble.sentex.ca>
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I experienced a similar issue. I was behind a Linksys
"firewall-cable/DSL router". When I choose a "passive" FTP connection
(don't remember the exact wording of the option I choose) my installs went
fine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>
To: "Chris Johnson" <cjohnson@palomine.net>
Cc: <stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: something not quite right with snapshots
> At 02:58 PM 10/5/01 -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:49:04PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > I ran into something strange while trying to install today's snapshot
off
> > > releng4.freebsd.org. Choosing a standard distribution, it goes
through
> > 141
> > > of 141 chunks, but after the last one, it says something like "could
not
> > > fetch /bin. do you want to try again." If you hit yes, it downloads
> > > everything again. If you say no, it skips to the next section docs
where I
> > > am right now. Anyone have a guess as to what might cause this ?
> >
> >The same thing happened to me, on two separate installations. I simply
hit
> >"No"
> >each time it asked if I wanted to try again, and, aside from it being
very
> >annoying, everything was installed normally.
>
> Yes, same here. All went well, however the defaults for a new user's shell
> were missing. IIRC, it would usually show /bin/sh where as now, it was
> blank as well as the suggested GID and UID.
>
> ---Mike
>
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