Folks, I also see this, on an i386 system. It's been happening since 2015-12-19, but I hadn't used snapshots since 2015-09-25, where it did not occur. I download snapshots from mirror.ox.ac.uk.
Installing base59.tgz stalls at 98%, 48128KB. Dmesg can be found at http://www.hydrus.org.uk/ref/chrome.txt -mark > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Janne Johansson > Sent: 21 January 2016 08:11 > To: Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]>; Misc <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: 5.9-beta upgrade stalled at base59.tgz 98% fetched, > 51072 KB on first try, retry succeeds > > 2016-01-18 18:39 GMT+01:00 Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]>: > > > 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. > > > > I've seen it also, but in a VirtualBox amd64 vm which I more or less > blamed > VB for. > > But very alike your situation, stalls at base(58).tgz and restarts of > the > upgrade script allows it to run through. > > In my case, always got the sets from ftp.eu.openbsd.org.. > > -- > May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
