[indiana-discuss] [osol-help] Problem downloading VirtualBox from "extra" repository

[Shawn Walker]

andrew wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:25:59 PDT
>> andrew <andrum06 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Basically downloading VirtualBox from the "extra"
>> repository fails -
>>> it gets to about 57MB then jumps back to 51MB,
>> continues to 57MB then
>>> jumps back.
>> This is becoming almost a FAQ ;-)
>> Try setting "PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=200 pfexec
>> packagemanager" from the
>> commandline. The transfer will complete 100% then.
> 
> Hmmm. Strangely that fixed it. I say strangely because previously, when it failed, the download did not stall - it sat happily counting up the megabytes, then failed. 
> 
> It also seems to use a rather large amount of CPU time when it is downloading - perhaps it does some sort of checksumming as it is doing the download?

Yes, the data is md5'd as it is downloaded, and if the expected checksum 
doesn't occur, it gets re-downloaded.

The 'looping' you are seeing is because the download failed, but that's 
due to bug 10010 (indirectly) which is fixed and the fix for will show 
up in 120:

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10010

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker