On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Daniel Prather wrote:
> In article <4512.192.168.0.2.1095819701.squirrel@192.168.0.2>,
> justin@shiningsilence.com 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! :(
I wonder if running cvsup from gdb would be helpful?