Problem with cvsup hanging ...

[Daniel Prather]

In article <20040921234944.GA76660 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:23:51PM -0500, Daniel Prather wrote:
> > I've been trying this for a few days now and I keep having problems.  
> > I'm trying to cvsup the FreeBSD ports collection as well as 
> > DragonFlyBSD's source collection.  Any time I try to do this, the 
> > computer will completely lock up at some random point in the cvsup 
> > process.  I've tried with ACPI on and off (it's a laptop), and 
> > absolutely can't isolate the issue.  There are no kernel panic messages, 
> > nothing in logs, etc.  Just a complete lock up.  The machine is a 
> > Toshiba Satellite 1695CDT.  Any help would greatly be appreciated!
> 
> First I hope you doing this from the console. Next, please stay on the
> first virtual console (that at f1), if the kernel does print anything,
> it goes there. If it hangs the next time, try to break into the debugger
> using <ctrl>-<alt>-<esc>, if that is successful, your machine is not
> completely dead and we can likely get more information on the actual
> issue.
> 
> Joerg
> 
> > 
> > Daniel Prather
> > MysticOne
> > mysticone at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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.

Daniel Prather
MysticOne
mysticone at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx