From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 10:10:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA17004 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from moonpie.w8hd.org (moonpie.w8hd.org [198.252.159.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16991 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:10:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kimc@localhost) by moonpie.w8hd.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00426; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:09:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:09:53 -0500 (EST) From: Kim Culhan To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: sup is broken? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have been trying for many hours to sup -stable and am becoming convinced it is not possible. The most recent attempt of a few minutes ago illustrates the main problem: I start the sup process and it successfully updates up to a point where we see something like: SUP Updated directory secure SUP Upgrade of src-secure-stable completed at Feb 3 12:58:59 1996 SUP Created directory sup/src-secure for sup/src-secure/when.stable SUP Upgrade of src-share-stable at Sat Feb 3 12:59:00 1996 SUP Fileserver 9.13 (4.3 BSD) 16381 on freefall.FreeBSD.org at 12:59:00 SUP Fileserver supports compression. SUP Fileserver is currently busy SUP: Will retry in 85 seconds SUP Fileserver 9.13 (4.3 BSD) 16508 on freefall.FreeBSD.org at 13:00:26 SUP Fileserver supports compression. SUP Fileserver is currently busy SUP: Will retry in 189 seconds During that little window in time between the point when: SUP Upgrade of src-secure-stable completed at Feb 3 12:58:59 1996 and SUP Upgrade of src-share-stable at Sat Feb 3 12:59:00 1996 the sup server became busy. From recent experience this will continue to back-off in retry time, effectively hanging it for the next several hours. Alas.. if only it would have hung in there for another couple minutes.. 8 minutes later and the back-off time is now 528 seconds. I think I looked everywhere for a list of alternate servers but could not find it. Is there any way around this? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. regards kim -- kimc@w8hd.org