From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 14:25:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3357116A41C for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 14:25:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D7343D1F for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 14:25:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from lightning (12-202-24-76.client.insightbb.com[12.202.24.76]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050530142545i92005c1n1e>; Mon, 30 May 2005 14:25:46 +0000 From: Steven Friedrich To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 10:25:40 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505301025.40277.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.11-RELEASE install error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 14:25:47 -0000 On Sunday 29 May 2005 09:35 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Scratch the entire thing and start over. Next time, do the minimal > install, and do NOT do an x-user install. Do not install ports. > > Once the system is running, cvsup a current ports collection then > make install on x, gnome, & kde. > > What is supplied with 4.11-release is old and a number of utilities - > like firefox - will not build on it anymore. > > Ted > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Steven > > Friedrich > > Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 2:37 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: 4.11-RELEASE install error > > > > > > I'm installing via ftp from one of my own servers where I > > copied disc1-gnome, > > disc2. > > > > I did a minimal install and a x-user install, selecting gnome. > > These two installs worked fine. > > > > Then I copied disc1-kde into the same directory that the > > previous two discs > > went into. > > > > This time I elected x-user install and I elected to install > > linux compat > > (which I had done during the gnome install as well). > > > > It aborted with: > > "Add of package linux_base-8-8.0_4 aborted, error code 1 - > > Please check the > > debug screen for more info." > > > > The debug screen says: > > > > ./share/perl/man/cat3 missing (created) > > /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header > > /usr/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > > /usr/bin/tar: Child returned status 1 > > /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > pkg_add: tar extract of - failed! > > pkg_add: unable to extract table of contents file from '-' - > > not a package? > > > > > > -- > > i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE > > There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that > > understand binary and > > then, the others. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I don't want to offend anyone, but is this the official FreeBSD.org position? I had hoped that 4.11 would be the crown jewel of the 4.x series and would be worth buying on CD or DVD. I know that what Ted says is the unpolished truth. I've went thru various installs, selecting different configs each time and I noticed that KDE 3.4 wasn't in 4.11-RELEASE. I wish the core team saw each release as a milestone captured in posterity. Anyway, I performed a couple installs last night directly from CD rather than the ftp directory that I created with cp -R /cdrom/* . I notice that during a CD install, the progress bar sometimes appears to back up, perhaps indicating a read that has to be performed again. Perhaps when I use cp, there isn't anything detecting these read errors and I get corrupt data? So to check out this theory, I downloaded the ISOs again and I'm going to mount them and cp into the directory again. I love Unix in general and FreeBSD in particular. I wish the core team wouldn't turn their back on the 4.x series so quickly. Please, please, please schedule a 4.12 release that's as pristine as possible. -- i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that understand binary and then, the others.