On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:34 AM, Michael Richter wrote:

> I've isolated the problem.  (Not solved it, but identified it.)
>
> The problem was network congestion somewhere between China and  
> wherever sqlite.org is located.  After I did a complete shutdown of  
> everything and restarted from scratch (renegotiating my PPPoE lease)  
> the problem went away by itself.  Further what was taking literally  
> hours before only took a few minutes this time.
>
> So...
>
> It seems that Fossil is being a little bit optimistic about the  
> network's reliability.  Given the random locations that things were  
> dying in, I'm guessing there was network timeouts that weren't being  
> gracefully handled (as in reported) causing Fossil to process  
> incomplete sets of cards.

The code in http_socket.c treats a network error as an end-of-file.

D. Richard Hipp
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