Matthew Stevenson wrote:
For quite a while (2 or 3 weeks) the package manager has been trying to install
a new version of virtualbox from /extra repo. The problem is that it keeps
getting to 37MB downloaded, and then the progress bar jumps back to 31MB, and
it gets stuck in this loop, going between 31 and 37MB.
Whenever I let it have another go, it starts the download from the 31MB mark,
so I'm assuming it has some kind of cache. Is there a way to clear it and let
it start fresh over? I saw some things on the net saying that /var/pkg/download
could be safely deleted, which I tried to do, but it was deleting it for over
an hour and still didn't finish, so I gave up.
Note, the same behaviour is observed if I use command line pkg image-update.
Any tips would be appreciated,
If you are using build 118 or newer, this is a known (but is resolved in
future builds) issue:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10010
The issue in summary is that the timeout behaviour of the pkg(5)
transport system changed subtly in build 118, and so if it can't
retrieve the file within 30 seconds, it fails and retries the transfer
with the assumption that it was corrupt or there was a bad connection.
That's why you see the 'looping'.
To workaround it, simply set the PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT environment variable
before executing the pkg command:
export PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=900
pfexec pkg image-update
Cheers,
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Shawn Walker
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