[indiana-discuss] pkg install fails with "timed out"

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> 2008/6/4 Aubrey Li <aubrey at blastwave.org>:
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Seema Alevoor <Seema.Alevoor at sun.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have installed OpenSolaris 2008.05. I'm trying to get SUNWapch22 package using
>>> 'pfexec pkg install SUNWapch22' but every time it fails midway (it is very erratic - sometimes fails after getting 180 files,
>>> sometimes after 300 files) with the following msg.
>>> I tried installing a smaller package (SUNWnetcat) and it goes through fine.
>>>
>>> -------------------
>>> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWapch22
>>> DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
>>> SUNWapch22                                   0/1      80/876    1.47/12.29pkg: An unexpected error happened during installation: timed out
>>> The Boot Environment opensolaris failed to be updated. A snapshot was taken before the failed attempt and is mounted here /tmp/tmpF-FIhv.
>>> Use 'beadm activate opensolaris_static:-:2008-06-03-11:39:05 and reboot if you wish to boot to this BE.
[...]>>> -------------------
>>>
>>> How do I resolve this issue ?
>>>
>>
>> I believe this is a very good question. Actually I encountered this
>> issue many times.
>> The only way to resolve it is try it again and again till install completed.
>>
>> IPS package should offer another way to download, just like SVR4 package, we can
>> download by http/ftp/etc..., and install it from localhost.
>>
>> Or pkg install should support downloading from the point last time failed
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
> Support for download resume is coming soon.
>
> Support for an "on-disk" format is slated for the future though it is
> not yet known what form it will take.

   In addition having to reboot just because of a failed package download
   is bad IMHO. Reminds me of Win95. Download should happen to a
   staging area which then is transferred to the live filesystem en-masse
   and actions processed. Reboot should only be needed to recover from
   rare weird install problems unrelated to downloading the bits.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> Cheers,
> --
> Shawn Walker
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