Hi,
Please forgive me for my newbie status but I am enjoying the journey of learning.
I too have this same problem. I had a freenas software crash and had to reinstall all the software. I installed the operating system and brought it back to it's previous state using a backup. I then went to reinstall serviio (which I had previously running seamlessly) and I can not install the packages. I am getting exactly the same error.
I am sorry but could someone please explain what is meant by the solution provided here? Could someone please give me step by step instructions to use the solution here in putty.
Your help will be greatly apprecisted
Result I get when run pkg_add command copied from putty below
Welcome to FreeNAS!
$ su
Password:
whittserver:/mnt# cd /
whittserver:/# cd /var
whittserver:/var# pkg_add -v -r xtrans
scheme: [ftp]
user: []
password: []
host: [ftp.freebsd.org]
port: [0]
document: [/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/Latest/xtrans.tbz]
---> ftp.freebsd.org:21
looking up ftp.freebsd.org
connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21
<<< 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
>>> USER anonymous
<<< 331 Please specify the password.
>>> PASS
jon@whittserver.local<<< 230 Login successful.
>>> PWD
<<< 257 "/"
>>> CWD pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/Latest
<<< 550 Failed to change directory.
>>> CWD pub
<<< 250 Directory successfully changed.
>>> CWD FreeBSD
<<< 250-If you're looking for one of the FreeBSD releases, please look in the
<<< 250-releases/${ARCH}/${RELNAME} directory, where ARCH = "alpha", "amd64",
<<< 250-"i386", "ia64", "pc98", or "sparc64" and RELNAME = the release
<<< 250-you're interested in, e.g. "7.1-RELEASE" or "8.0-RELEASE".
<<< 250 Directory successfully changed.
>>> CWD ports
<<< 250 Directory successfully changed.
>>> CWD i386
<<< 250-These are packages for the i386 architecture. Here are brief
<<< 250-descriptions of each subdirectory.
<<< 250-
<<< 250- packages-6-stable: Packages for FreeBSD-6-stable.
<<< 250- packages-6.4-release: Packages for FreeBSD 6.4-release.
<<< 250- packages-7-stable: Packages for FreeBSD-7-stable.
<<< 250- packages-7.2-release: Packages for FreeBSD 7.2-release.
<<< 250- packages-7.3-release: Packages for FreeBSD 7.3-release. (not yet available)
<<< 250- packages-8-stable: Packages for FreeBSD-8-stable.
<<< 250- packages-8.0-release: Packages for FreeBSD 8.0-release.
<<< 250- packages-9-current: Packages for FreeBSD-9-current.
<<< 250-
<<< 250-packages-*-release directories are built from the ports collection
<<< 250-shipped with the release, and are not updated thereafter.
<<< 250-
<<< 250-packages-*-stable and packages-*-current are updated roughly once a
<<< 250-week.
<<< 250-
<<< 250-Please see the file "../../dir.sizes" for the current size of each
<<< 250-directory. In particular, mirroring thise directories will cause about
<<< 250-8GB of traffic per week from packages-?-stable and packages-?-current
<<< 250-updates.
<<< 250-
<<< 250-Older release package sets may be found at:
<<< 250-
<<< 250-ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/
<<< 250 Directory successfully changed.
>>> CWD packages-7.3-release
<<< 550 Failed to change directory.
>>> QUIT
<<< 221 Goodbye.
Error: Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports ... xtrans.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/Latest/xtrans.tbz' by URL
pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed
whittserver:/var#