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

[Shawn Walker]

2008/6/4 Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I have never had to reboot due to a failed package download.

>From what I understand, downloads happen first, and installation
doesn't actually happen until it is complete.

As such, the boot environment message you get when a download fails is
probably misleading.

This is something else that is being worked on (there is a bug on
defect.opensolaris.org about it).

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker