Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 14:55:04 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: something not quite right with snapshots Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005145404.04a1aae0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20011005145842.B37706@palomine.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005134642.04cca060@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20011005134642.04cca060@marble.sentex.ca>
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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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