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Tim McDaniel wrote:

> The original problem report mentioned it hanging during the download
> or install, I forget which.  I wondered whether it might have been
> some odd networking problem with that particular mirror.  (I've had
> odd networking problems in the past, even in Linux.)  It's also an
> obvious fix technique, if it works, but he later said it didn't.

The hang is most likely during the postinstall phase, because some BLODA
is preventing the postinstall scripts from running.  No postinstall = no
/etc/profile, which means PATH doesn't get set to include /bin, which
means normal commands don't work and only shell builtins function.  No
postinstall/profile also means /bin/bash doesn't get copied to /bin/sh
which means any script with a #!/bin/sh fails to run also.

Brian

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