Problem with cvsup hanging ...

justin at shiningsilence.com justin at shiningsilence.com
Tue Sep 21 19:31:36 PDT 2004


> 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.





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