From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 16:58:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCE216A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:58:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr (postfix3-1.free.fr [213.228.0.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E1843D58 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:58:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from messmate@free.fr) Received: from eric.placeverte.home (lns-vlq-6-82-65-12-46.adsl.proxad.net [82.65.12.46]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 2ACEF173846 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:58:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:58:35 +0200 From: messmate To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040920185835.0bce8933@eric.placeverte.home> In-Reply-To: <20040920124052.GH6502@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040920142124.5c378f01@eric.placeverte.home> <20040920124052.GH6502@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: ~S|{@o1@R1@.oAi5*hm[#*i1`Pk@JI4>Ij**TdOR1Fqp}VrEeVY+@m4"]`j\xX Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: error 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:58:38 -0000 On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:40:52 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:21:24PM +0200, messmate wrote: > >> can anyone tell me what tjhis means : "error1, look at the debug >> screen.." >> This error occurs at the install of a package. >> Where is that debug screen ? and what means error 1 exactly ? >> Any help welcome. > >You're using sysinstall(8) to install some packages. An error has >occurred. Now, if you're actually using sysinstall to install the >system, you can hit Alt-F2 to switch to an alternate console where >there should be a load of debug output which will hopefully tell you >exactly what went wrong. > >On the other hand, if you're just running sysinstall(8) from the >command line as a system admin tool, then that output is not actually >accessible. In this case, using 'pkg_add' directly from the command >line will give you a better idea of what's going on: > > # pkg_add -r pkgname > >If you can't work out what the package name should be, take a look at >http://www.freshports.org/ the 'port details' screen very helpfully >tells you exactly what to type. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > >-- >Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way >PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow >Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH >UK > Thanks to all for the help. Adding via /stand/sysinstall didn't add the dependencys. Second: there is no debug screen found ! Downloading the package AND the dependencys with a pkg_add did the trick. -- Amicalement mess-mate