Problem with cvsup hanging ...

[Daniel Prather]

In article <4512.192.168.0.2.1095819701.squirrel at xxxxxxxxxxx>,
 justin at 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! :(

Daniel Prather
MysticOne
mysticone at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx