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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:54:27 -0800 (PST)
From: jroberts@ashland.edu
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Subject: Installation fails during package add
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>Number:         3032
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Installation fails during package add
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 18 16:00:22 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Tue Mar 18 19:28:42 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 18 19:29:03 PST 1997
>Originator:     Jeff Roberts
>Release:        2.1.7 Security Release
>Organization:
Ashland University
>Environment:
>Description:
Installation goes fine until I get the last screen (for adding packages).  The emacs-2 and jove-4 packages are evidently corrupted.  gzip returns "files not really there" and hangs.  I can ^C to stop the full installation, but not to just kill the failed package attempt, so I lose hours of work.

The machine is a Cyrix P6-120+ w/ 40MB RAM, two mult-GB drives, 2MB 3D ProVidia 9685.  Installing on the secondary drive, BTW.
>How-To-Repeat:
Well, I'm not sure how many packages will give this result.  It seemed to work for the majority of them.  You could try installing those packages.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 18 19:28:42 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Satoshi is fixing the corrupted packages; this is a known problem. 
Thanks for reporting it though. 
>Unformatted:
