From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 2 00:51:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29615 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA29610 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00280 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:51:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09304; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:27:44 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:27:44 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2, 3.0 pkg_manage - where are you :-( References: <17166.857231990@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Mar 1, 1997 18:29:46 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jamie Bowden wrote: > Shame that seems to be broken. On three different installs now, two over > ftp, and one from a cd I burned, sysinstall will freeze during package > installation. Everything seems to be fine, and it starts installing > packages okay, but it will freeze up after about 10 packages or so. Hmm. What says your console (Alt-F2)? If it says ``out of processes'', i wouldn't be surprised. sysinstall runs as init, but i've seen the above one time as well, due to there being many zombies around. Apparently, sysinstall isn't very interested in the death of its children. OTOH, it _sometimes_ is interested, and that was enough to defeat the idea to install a global SIGCHILD handler. (Been there, done that.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)