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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:24:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        jamie <batsy@io.org>
Cc:        freebsd-install@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SIGPIPE in jun12 SNAP install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960709212346.1752A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960705010507.11704C-100000@trepan.io.org>

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On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, jamie wrote:

> I have gone through the archives and I haven't found anything on this.
> I have been trying to install the jun 12 SNAP and it almost gets there...
> But, when I try to install the packages, I look in the "emergency VTY" 
> and it tells me that it can't pkg_add because of a SIGPIPE error. Someone 
> has pointed out to me that this may meant that (in all likelyhood) when 
> it tries to pipe something to tar, tar is no longer a process. His other 
> suggestion was that it may not be tar, but it seems that a command it 
> being piped to a dead process or non-existant string.

What is the complete text of the error message(s)?

A bad archive will cause this.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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