I installed some software (pkg install squeak) today and had no problems;
E_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST (6) reason: Could not resolve host: pkg.openindiana.org I've seen this error quite a few times when there is DNS resolving problem, for example when /etc/nsswitch.conf has an issue. Perhaps due to a number of retries your package install was succesful after all. According to the manpage (I haven't tried it) PKG_CLIENT_MAX_TIMEOUT has default value 4 and PKG_CLIENT_MAX_CONSECUTIVE_ERROR has default 4 as well. I'm not sure which of those 2 (or some other?) environment variables is the 4 in > URL: 'http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster' (happened 4 times) David Stes ----- Op 13 jul 2021 om 17:59 schreef gary mills [email protected]: > Twice recently, after a successful package install, I found this > message in my terminal window: > > WARNING: Errors were encountered when attempting to retrieve package > catalog information. Packages added to the affected publisher repositories > since > the last retrieval may not be available. > > Errors were encountered when attempting to contact repository for publisher > 'openindiana.org'. > > Unable to contact valid package repository: > http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/ > Encountered the following error(s): > Framework error: code: E_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST (6) reason: Could not > resolve > host: pkg.openindiana.org > URL: 'http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster' (happened 4 times) > > What does this mean? I've never seen it before. What's going on? > > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
