pkg_add hangs

["Eric d'Alibut" <eric.halibut%gmail.com@localhost>]

Recent i386 installations show pkg_add hanging at the end of
installing pre-compiled binaries. Ctrl-c'ing out of the hang yields
the message:

pkg_add: can't chdir back to '/var/tmp/instmp.00366e'

The value of PKG_PATH in the environment for all these examples was
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/4.0/i386/All.

This behavior is seen in installs from

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200810100002Z
(vmware image installed from network)

and

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0.1
(vmware image installed from network)

I don't see this on an install from

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-4-0
(vmware image installed from my own build of 4.0)

nor on an older -current build of 4.99.64 from last June.
(my own build of that -current version)

INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, when pkg_add thus hangs and fails to finish its
operations, it does complete the installs of dependencies for the pkg
named on the pkg_add command line, AND that pkg *is* installed in
workable shape but does not appear in the listing of pkg_info, whereas
the dependencies so installed do!

This is not a mission-critical problem for me, but it is providing a
pebble-in-my-shoe experience. Thoughts, anyone?


Kind regards,

-- 
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