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Old 27th February 2011
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Hi there,

today, I've tried to install NetBSD 5.1 on an external USB drive. The third attempt to install the OS finally went through the installation process till its end.

Then I configured Grub2 on the internal HDD to start NetBSD from the external drive. The boot process starts but then suddenly stops (not necessarily at the same position!). After some minutes this message appears:

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uvm_fault (0xc0b82a00, 0, 1) -> 0xe
fatal page fault in supervisor mode
trap type 6 code 0 eip c0767a89 cs8 eflags 10282 cr2 0 ilevel 4
kernel: supervisor trap page fault, code=0
Stopped in pid 0.39 (system) at netbsd:usb_allocmem+0x49: cmpl 0(%edx), %ebx
db{0}>
Think, it was a bad idea to install NetBSD to an external drive, wasn't it?
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Old 27th February 2011
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Not necessarily. Now you can report the error on a NetBSD mailing list
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Old 28th February 2011
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Not necessarily. Now you can report the error on a NetBSD mailing list
Wasn't necessary. I deleted everything on the external drive and installed NetBSD again. Then the installation went through as well as afterwards the boot process.

Now, I'm struggling with pkg_add that won't install firefox because of some inconsistencies with perl.
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I have updated all my packages this weekend without encountering any problems. Maybe you should delete & reinstall Firefox and its dependencies.
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Old 1st March 2011
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I have updated all my packages this weekend without encountering any problems. Maybe you should delete & reinstall Firefox and its dependencies.
Hmmm, that sounds promising! As far as I can see, the binary packages on the mirror I used were not up to date.

I tried it with pkgin and I get this message when I try to install the firefox:

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# pkgin install firefox
calculating dependencies for firefox...
/usr/X11R7/lib/libpixman-1.so.0, needed by pango-1.26.2nb2 is not
present in this system.
Maybe it's related to this problem: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-...msg006576.html
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Here's a nifty trick:

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pkg_add -uuv firefox >& /tmp/update.log
NOTE #1: The >& notation (CSH shell) redirects all the output (stdout and stderr) to a log file so you can analyze the update later.

NOTE #2: There are times (it's very rare) when pkg_add updates all the dependencies but gives an error when updating the leafs (the last packages, like level 1 or 2 leafs). In case it happens, run the command again, it's harmless.

PS: I've made a PHP script this weekend which uses the output from 'pkgdepgraph -o' to create a shell script with one-line calls to pkg_add for each installed package but ordered form the core dependencies (like perl and pcre) to the leafs (like firefox and xfce) so that I don't have any update issues. When it's fully tested I'll release it ... I don't know who invented regular expressions but he (or she) should get a monument.
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Old 2nd March 2011
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Hmmm, funny thing - yesterday evening I tried it again with "pkgin install firefox" and now it went through without any problem

Maybe an explanantion: Before I have installed some packages by using pkgsrc (opera and opera-plugins). Maybe the correct dependencies came this way.
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Old 28th March 2011
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Hi there,

today, I've tried to install NetBSD 5.1 on an external USB drive. The third attempt to install the OS finally went through the installation process till its end.

Then I configured Grub2 on the internal HDD to start NetBSD from the external drive. The boot process starts but then suddenly stops (not necessarily at the same position!). After some minutes this message appears:



Think, it was a bad idea to install NetBSD to an external drive, wasn't it?
A small question. How did you get grub2 configured to load NetBSD? Any particular search terms or handbook page in particular that I could use to get grub2 set for loading netbsd?
Thanks.
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Old 29th March 2011
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A small question. How did you get grub2 configured to load NetBSD?
Just look at my quote in this thread
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