Re: Problem with cvsup hanging ...

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Daniel Prather wrote:

> In article <4512.192.168.0.2.1095819701.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>  justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > > Yes, I've been doing it from the first virtual console.  I did as you
> > > said and let it run until it locked up, then tried ctrl-alt-escape.
> > > Nothing :(  No messages or anything are ever printed.  It simply locks
> > > up at random points as cvsup runs.
> >
> > What happens if you, say, download a very large file?  Or if you download
> > a tarball of the src/dfports ( http://dragon.bsdtech.com/DragonFly/ ) and
> > ungzip/tar?  I'm wondering if it's something with bad RAM or the drive,
> > triggered by file activity.
>
> I tried that using fetch.  It d/led the tarball just fine.  I think did
> "tar jxvf src.tar.bz2" and that proceeded without a hitch as well.
> Soooooo, I'm stumped! :(

I wonder if running cvsup from gdb would be helpful?