From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 21: 7:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5D337B405 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721EB43FA3 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:07:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA12531; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:07:15 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: jgcarri@pasadena.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup never finishes Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:07:14 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: jgcarri@pasadena.edu References: <200302112029.39368.jgcarri@pasadena.edu> In-Reply-To: <200302112029.39368.jgcarri@pasadena.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302112107.14847.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:29 pm, John Carri wrote: > Hi all, > I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 on my Athlon XP 1700 desktop at work. I'm > definitely a newbie, but I've read through Dru Lavigne's tutorials at > OnLamp.com > ( http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/05/FreeBSD_Basics.html ) > and with these for a guide I've used CVSup successfully a few times > (and also discovered the joys of compiling a custom kernel and of the > "portupgrade" utility). > > After FreeBSD 5.0 was released, though, CVSup no longer terminates > but goes on and on and on for days on end with "inactivity timeout" > and "will retry" messages every 90 minutes or so. I have a pretty > fast network connection to the internet, about 250 kB/S on a good > day. I have made no changes to my cvs-supfile, still using RELENG_4 > as before. Here's a snippet of output from running cvsup -g -L2 > ~/cvs-supfile : > -----------------------output from neverending > cvsup----------------------- Connecting to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org > Connected to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org > Server software version: SNAP_16_1e > Negotiating file attribute support > Exchanging collection information > Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection > Running > Updating collection src-all/cvs > Cleaning up ... > Inactivity timeout > Will retry at 18:48:39 > Retrying > Connecting to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org > Connected to cvsup14.FreeBSD.org > Server software version: SNAP_16_1e > Negotiating file attribute support > Exchanging collection information > Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection > Running > Cleaning up ... > Inactivity timeout > Will retry at 21:14:14 > and so on and so on and so on.... > > Here's my cvs-supfile: > ------------------------cvs-supfile--------------------- > FreeBSD_box# cat cvs-supfile > *default host=cvsup14.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default prefix=/usr > *default tag=RELENG_4 > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > src-all > ports-all tag=. > doc-all > FreeBSD_box# > > Anyone have any suggestions? Why has a perfectly functioning cvsup > process suddenly started failing with no changes whatsoever to the > cvs-supfile? > You are assuming that cvsup mirror function forever without flaw. I take this as a perfect example of when to try an alternate mirror. Kent > TIA, > -John Carri > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message