On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Edward Dowllar wrote:

> I just installed NetBSD 1.5 on an AMD K6-3. Install went great. But,
> when I try to istall pkgsrc.tar.gz, it will start installing various
> files and then it will display:
> 
> pkgsrc/archivers/lha/files/md5
> 
> tar: Skipping to next file header...
> 
> tar: child died with signal 11 (core dumped)
> 
> I thought it might be a bad copy of pkgsrc.tar.gz so I downloaded it
> again. Same thing. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, ED

Often, but not always, signal 11 is caused by some hardware problem.
Check out "The Sig11 FAQ" at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/.

As a work around, try untarring small parts of the pkgsrc tarfile at a
time.

Good luck,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/