Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:36:57 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: "bw.mail.lists" <bw.mail.lists@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installation hangs during "Archive extraction" phase (9.1) Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2M13go%2B9Ak-x_pNZHuOdDv7EvW%2BEo-q_k6xuzCTzUdLQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130726135120.GA2689@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20130726100030.GB1302@aurora.oekb.co.at> <51F25A90.80900@gmail.com> <20130726135120.GA2689@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote: > > You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate > > /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as > > documented in the handbook > > ( > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html > ): > > > > portsnap fetch > > portsnap extract > > > > Hi, > > Thanks for the hint. Now I could finish the installation (which takes > like forever (speaking in terms of 2 hours which is pretty strange > given the raw power of this machine)) however after rebooting the box > behaves weird to say the last: > > I started out be entering "portsnap fetch". Everything runs fine up to > the point when I see "Verifying snapshot integrity". Then the system > completely comes to a grind. After sending the "portsnap fetch" to the > background (^Z) and entering "top" the machine completely freezes > without any indication as to why. > > I've already done a complete hardware diagnosis - everything OK. > > Any ideas on how to track this one down? > Don't install ports during installation, try using 8.4 or 9.1BETA1 instead -- Adam Vande More
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