SUMMARY: Strange checksum behaviour

From: Chris Stoddart (C.Stoddart@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 28 1998 - 09:21:59 CDT


Many thanks to (so far):

blackman@voicenet.com
Marianne Rodgers <mrodgers@milliways.jsc.nasa.gov>
Kevin Sheehan - Uniq <u-kevin@megami.veritas.com>
jsturges@gmri.com
Roger Fujii <rmf@lookhere.com>
Daniel Lorenzini <lorenzd@gcm.com>
"David L. Markowitz" <David.Markowitz@litronic.com>
Gavin Brennan <btigb@ui.uis.doleta.gov>
Adrian.Poparlan@alcatel.fr
Michael Hill <Michael_Hill@csgsystems.com>

Well I finally solved it. Most people thought the system was getting
mixed up between /usr/bin/sum and /usr/ucb/sum (I also have the gnu sum
installed). However the script carefully sets the PATH to /usr/bin, and
if that wasn't enough, calls /usr/bin/sum explicitly.

The problem turned out to be lack of space in /var (especially /var/tmp
and /var/spool/pkg). Because I was working remotely from the machine I was
installing on, I didn't see the error messages on the console 'till I
looked in /var/adm. Anyway, I temporarly symlinked /var/tmp and
/var/spool/pkg to a disk with a huge amount of space and the
installation worked perfectly.

Thanks guys for helping,

Chris

--
Dr Chris Stoddart: Unix SysAdmin,
Department of Computer Science, 
Sheffield University, U.K.



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