1.6 sysinst problem with xbase.tgz?

[ste...@net-tex.de]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Marshall T. Rose wrote:

> hi. i'm doing a vanilla 1.6 install on a thinkpad a20p. six months ago, i
> did a 1.5.2 install on the same machine and it went flawlessly. this time,
> something bad happened.
>
> we get to the point where sysinst asks what to be installing, and i go for
> full. since earlier, when doing the disk config i selected X11, this means
> i'm going to get the x11 distribution sets.
>
> everything goes just fine downloading all the .tgz's. everything goes just
> fine unpacking them until we get to:
>
> pax ... .../xbase.tgz
> Segmentation fault
>
> uh.... what?
>
> so, i started from scratch, did the disk config for x11, but when it came
> time to select distribution sets, i turned off all the x stuff. sysinst ran
> successfully and i'm now in the process of doing pkgsrc stuff.
>
> i'll install x manually later on.
>
> but, what gives?

I got the same problem with man.tgz until I said I don't want to see
filenames as each file ist extracted.

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[Marshall T. Rose]

hi. i'm doing a vanilla 1.6 install on a thinkpad a20p. six months ago, i
did a 1.5.2 install on the same machine and it went flawlessly. this time,
something bad happened.

we get to the point where sysinst asks what to be installing, and i go for
full. since earlier, when doing the disk config i selected X11, this means
i'm going to get the x11 distribution sets.

everything goes just fine downloading all the .tgz's. everything goes just
fine unpacking them until we get to:

pax ... .../xbase.tgz
Segmentation fault

uh.... what?

so, i started from scratch, did the disk config for x11, but when it came
time to select distribution sets, i turned off all the x stuff. sysinst ran
successfully and i'm now in the process of doing pkgsrc stuff.

i'll install x manually later on.

but, what gives?

/mtr

[Marshall T. Rose]

> > pax ... .../xbase.tgz
> > Segmentation fault
>

> I got the same problem with man.tgz until I said I don't want to see
> filenames as each file ist extracted.

actually, i tried it both ways and got the same segfault...

/mtr