Hi Shawn, Thank you so much for your response. A proxy isn't being used....can I use pkgrecv from the bash prompt of the auto-install? I'll try and troubleshoot using that. Anything else I should try...or grab diagnostics from? Thank you again for your help.
-J On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Shawn Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > Jean McCormack wrote: >> >> Forwarding from caiman-discuss, can any of the pkg guru's help here? > > ... >> >> pkg: Maximum number of network retries exceeded during download. Details >> follow: >> Transfer from 'http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release' failed: Read error >> on tar stream. (happened 4 times) > > This particular oddity has been reported before, and I'm beginning to wonder > if it isn't hiding a more serious, subtle failure. > > I've verified that I can receive SUNWPython from pkg.opensolaris.org/release > using pkgrecv, which uses the same mechanism that the client currently does > to retrieve the package content. > > As such, I'm currently at a loss as to what could cause this specific > package to fail. > > The only thought that comes to mind is whether a proxy is being used? > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
