Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:31:11 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, dgy@rtd.com, jkh@freebsd.org, jbarrm@panix.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another 2.1.7 upgrade & no bin dist Message-ID: <199703302131.OAA02640@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <20380.859754392@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 30, 97 12:39:52 pm
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> > > > DEBUG: Parsing attributes file for distribution bin > > > > DEBUG: Parse config: Invalid character 'P' at line 0 > > > > ... > > > > Hm, unusual. It's having trouble parsing the bin.inf file. It looks okay > > on the 2.1.7 CD -- it matches the one on the 2.1.6 CD pretty closely. > > Make sure that the /cdrom/bin/bin.inf file looks okay, it should look like > > this (the first few lines): > > I know this one - it's a bug which has been in sysinstall since day > one and it only happens occasionally, making it very hard to find Hmmm... for me, spell "occasionally" as "A-L-W-A-Y-S" (at least the three different attempts I made to install... ) > (some data being corrupted somewhere on the 1st pass, so when you > come through on the 2nd to install more stuff, blooie). > > For 2.2.1, I finally just re-wrote all of that attribute code in > frustration at not being able to find the bug (and what I ended up > with was much nicer in the end) and I haven't seen it since. Grrrr... doesn't much help for a 2.1.7R install now, does it? :-( --don
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