From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 22:53:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA22221 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:53:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA22216 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:53:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA16476; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:53:13 -0800 (PST) To: Michael Alwan cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buffer overrun on download In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:51:39 EST." <3.0.1.32.19970227225139.0068809c@rma.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:53:12 -0800 Message-ID: <16472.857112792@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > When I tried to install the package, I got a lot of error messages saying > various files "don't really exist." Anybody think this had to do with a > communications problem, e.g. the buffer overruns? Could the size of the > file (about 13mb) have anything to do with this, or the default speed > (115200) of my ppp connection? No, this is actually a bug with pkg_add and really really large packages like xemacs. If you hold off on trying to install the xemacs package for now and simply get ahold of some 2.1-stable sources (see http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html) for, at the minimum, /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install it will fix these problems. Sorry, I'd have liked to have had this fix be in 2.1.7 but it would have meant re-rolling and replacing the entire bindist for the existing distribution. :-( Jordan