On 18/01/16(Mon) 18:39, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > For about the last week, I've been seeing this oddity with the amd64 > installer when doing snap to snap upgrades on my laptop. > > My routine for quite a while has been to fetch snapshots off the local > mirror whenever I notice there's a new one, recently about once a day, > then installing by booting the new bsd.rd and pointing at the local > directory for sets. This is a procedure that has just worked(TM) for years. > > But as I mentioned earlier, for about the last week the installer has > consistently stalled at base59.tgz 98%, 51072 KB fetched, and stayed > that way for long enough that I'd Ctrl-C out to the bsd.rd shell and > restart by typing 'upgrade' at the prompt. The upgrade then proceeds > with no issues on the second attempt. That is, on the previous attempts > over the last few days I've usually opted for the http (most local > mirror) as the source for sets. > > Then for today's snapshot, I downloaded only the bsd.rd, booted from > that and did a http install, only to see base59.tgz stall again at the > exact same spot. Ctrl-C and upgrade worked, just like the previous attempts. > > Is anybody else seeing this or something similar?
I saw that a couple of times upgrading a macppc some months ago.
