srcds update error

[magicite]

Hello,

I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on VMware Server 1.0.4 and I'm constantly getting the error

Broken Pipe

at random times during the update/install running the command

1. ./steam -command update -game tf -dir .
2. Not sure how to get debug.log
3. FreeBSD 7.0 Release
4. GCC 4.2.1 20070719
5. idd does not exist
6. FreeBSD "hostname" 7.0-RELEASE #1: Date User :Custom Kernel
7. It's running on a vmware server on a laptop right now but will go to a ESX eventually.

Any ideas? Thanks for reading.

[magicite]

Think I found the answer myself, haven't confirmed it yet. Need to run steam in bash shell. If this is true, probably needs to be added to the FreeBSD sticky.

[magicite]

magicite Wrote:Think I found the answer myself, haven't confirmed it yet. Need to run steam in bash shell. If this is true, probably needs to be added to the FreeBSD sticky.

Nope, same problem.

[magicite]

When I delete the directory and start the update over again, it seems to consistently break at

70.02% ./orangebox\tf\whitelist.cfg

[magicite]

Added README notes per sticky message.

Sorry I missed that originally.

[magicite]

and no,
ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress
does not work for this problem. Running the actual update part does not seem to use any extracting feature.

[magicite]

same problem with a nonvm environment. Something I'm overlooking to my knowledge I'm following the guide verbatim.

[tad1214]

I am also having this problem, any help?

[magicite]

I think I found out the problem later after I had given up the project due to lack of interest, but never tried it out. How does this work for you?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html

Quote:Set boot loader variables

The most important step is to reduce the kern.hz tunable to reduce the CPU utilization of FreeBSD under the VMWare environment. This is accomplished by adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf:

kern.hz=100

Without this setting, an idle FreeBSD VMWare guest OS will use roughly 15% of the CPU of a single processor iMac. After this change the usage will be closer to a mere 5%.

FreeBSD handbook is a nifty resource. I believe I read somewhere that this would also protect against system oddities, like what is experienced with srcds updates.

GL Tad, tell me if it works out.

[tad1214]

Well I didn't have a chance to try this yet, but every time I ran the tool it got a little further, I ran it like 17 times and it finally finished. Runs TF2 like a champ.

The Kern.hz=100 is almost required in a VM as many things take longer (that depend on the system clock, such as top) also the clock will run at about 1/2 speed making your time constantly wrong.

FreeBSD handbook is the best thing since sliced bread. Literally. I prefer the handbook over sliced bread acutally. I dont really like bread.

Also if FreeBSD is the only thing you are running in a VM try running it in jails, use ez-jails. Literally native speed.