[nycbug-talk] those pesky error messages

[Charles Sprickman]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:

> Thanks Scott,
>
> You are correct, in his reply to my post, Jesse Callaway suggested hitting
> shift-F2, etc... which I interpreted to mean "alt-F2", etc. which enables
> you to switch between virtual terminals.

That does work during the install; ALT-F2 will give you the sysintall
debug screen.  BUT if you are running sysinstall post-install, I've not
yet figured out where exactly the debug output should show up.

> I was switching between all the terminals (all 7 of them) but was unable to
> see anything looked like a debug screen..

Yep.

> Hopefully you're correct in your prediction.  I'm quite enjoying FreeBSD...
> it's hard for me to describe but it definitely seems to have a more
> 'serious' or 'grave' mein than Linux...

"Organized" and "Unified" and "an entire OS not made out of bits and
pieces" come to mind as well. :)

You might want to try using the "pkg_add" tool to add those packages and
see if that works.  If it doesn't, it will certainly give you a more
meaningful error message.

Charles

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> > From: Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:56:50 -0400
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> > Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] those pesky error messages
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:34:10PM -0400, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> >> Here are the messages I'm getting:
> >>
> >> "Add of Package php4-4.3.6 aborted, error code 1- Please check the debug
> >> screen for more info."
> >>
> >>
> >> "Add of Package bacula-1.32f5 aborted, error code 1- Please check the debug
> >> screen for more info."
> >>
> >>
> >> I cannot figure out where/what the debug screen is.
> >
> > I think someone said hit shift and then F2, F3, etc.  (I ~think~ it's F4
> > or F5).
> >
> > However, they apparently mistyped, it should be alt+F4 (or F5 or
> > whatever)  :)
> >
> >
> > Of course, at my age, since I've been busy today, I may have misread the
> > original post--but there should be, aside from the install screen,
> > another console where you can see some of the messages.
> >
> > HTH and hope that you're enjoying FreeBSD aside from these
> > glitches--soon you'll be the one telling the next newcomer how to do it.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Scott
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