On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 07:32:07PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > On 12/07/2008, at 12:31 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >> Ivo van der Sangen wrote: >>> When trying to install texlive_texmf-minimal-2007p2.tgz I run into >>> problems. The >>> pkg_add script does not terminate. The progress bar stops at 100% and >>> there are >>> still 3 processes running: perl, ftp and gzip. >> >> It happen sometime when dependency are install. The FTP hang as it doesn't >> close the connection properly. >> >> Just look the process and kill ONLY the ftp one when it's at 100% and do >> not close by itself. This will allow the rest of the regular pkg_add to >> continue as usual. >> >> Then the install process will continue as normal and get the next >> dependency if any as nothing unusual happened. >> >> Not a big deal when you know. >> >> Hope this help you. >> >> Best, >> >> Daniel > > If it is FTP (and these are the symptoms I've seen when it has been > an FTP issue) then ... > > My experience is that your FTP *control* channel is timed out, because the > FTP > takes over a certain time (e.g. 10 minutes.) Your FTP *data* channel is > busy, > but dumb firewalls (usually M$ in my experience) see nothing happening on > the > control channel, and kill it. The data channel finishes the transfer, but > your control > channel has gone ... so hang ... > > It's OpenBSD, so use the excellent docs ... > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html > > Near the bottom ... > > FTP_KEEPALIVE > Have ftp(1) send a byte after every FTP_KEEPALIVE > seconds, > so that incorrectly configured network equipment won't > ag- > gressively drop it. See ``ftp -k'' for more information. > > This will keep the control channel alive, so when the data channel is > finished, > the control channel is still alive & bad things don't happen. > > Thanks. In fact, this has been turned on by default after 4.3, so in current this should no longer be an issue at all.
I'm going to remove the button from pkg_add soon, this does remind me to do it...
