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I somehow made my sysinstall unstable. And I used to use ports but I
like this binary install. I guess I am getting lazy.

Following is what I did.

I used the GUI because I don't know how to do otherwise to unselect
one of my previous package and reselect a new one. Then it was trying
to removing my new package then segfault.

But according to man sysinstall only modifies /etc/hosts,
/etc/rc.conf, /etc/resolv.conf

The install.cfg in /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg is never
used because i never compiled that version. i don't think so. it has
incorrect ip address. so I never touched it.

But my question is where is my current sysinstall's configuration
file?
How can i restore sysinstall to run? it is keep crashing all the time.

Just for the reference I installed *X Korean Version, then tried
to install ImageMagick and remove *X. Then the whole segfault
started.

Quote:> I somehow made my sysinstall unstable. And I used to use ports but I
> like this binary install. I guess I am getting lazy.

> Following is what I did.

> I used the GUI because I don't know how to do otherwise to unselect
> one of my previous package and reselect a new one. Then it was trying
> to removing my new package then segfault.

> But according to man sysinstall only modifies /etc/hosts,
> /etc/rc.conf, /etc/resolv.conf

> The install.cfg in /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg is never
> used because i never compiled that version. i don't think so. it has
> incorrect ip address. so I never touched it.

> But my question is where is my current sysinstall's configuration
> file?
> How can i restore sysinstall to run? it is keep crashing all the time.

> Just for the reference I installed *X Korean Version, then tried
> to install ImageMagick and remove *X. Then the whole segfault
> started.

If I were you, I'd cvsup to latest -STABLE... etc...

then, cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall && make all install

But, get used to pkg_* commands and ports, etc.. You'll learn your system a
lot better..

Hope this helps.

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Quote:> But, get used to pkg_* commands and ports, etc.. You'll learn your system a
> lot better..

> Hope this helps.

Actually that was the tool I was looking for that helped me a lot. But
now I have bug reports. ImageMagick-3.7.0.2 (I think) the one that's
released with 4.5 is corrupted. tgz file doesn't uncompress. I tried
multiple sites and actually downloaded this manually but the
uncompressing fails and the pkg_add makes half entry. Though 4.4
version of ImageMagick 3.7.0.1 installed fine.

Okay the dependency of this module is not proper. Because I didn't
have X installed and it still installed without complain but wouldn't
run.

Now those are minor bugs. I have some serious bug. But I didn't know
whome to report to. I have a way around it and everything works on my
computer but I like to let other people know. I was using some perl
script to generate thumb nail pictures. However, the perl script will
segfault from my smbfs. I am not sure what's wrong with it. Though if
I copy the file to my local and load from the local disk it was okay.
I am guessing that the jpg loader actually does some sort of memory
mapping of file and fails because it can't do that over smbfs. That's
my guess. But I think it's fairly reasonable one.

Anyway Thanks again for your help. I actually had to install and
remove bunch of packages but it was very helpful.

pkg_* tools are pretty good for people like me who doesn't want to
recompile.