On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Brian Douglass wrote:

> Is anyone else having trouble extracting the latest source from the CVS 
> repository?
> 
> I've been having a devil of a time the last day or so.  Everything is 
> incredibly slow or just hangs.
> 
> I know CVS pretty well, I generated the the PDF document for CVS 1.11.  And 
> I've been using it for years.
> But this has me stumped.
> 
> If I just do a
>       cvs checkout xc test
> 
> I get everything.  But I don't want the absolute latest, I wanted one of 
> the taged versions like xf-4.1.99.5.  So I
>       cvs checkout -r xf-4_1_99_5 xc test
> it just hangs.  After two hours I kill it.
>       cvs checkout -r xf-4_1_branch xc test
> Same thing, just hangs.
> 
> After doing
>       cvs checkout xc test
> I do
>       cvs update text
> And it slowly grinds away for a few hours.  Eventually it gets to the end 
> of the tree at
>       /test/xsuite/xtest/tset/XiPROTO/ungrbdvky
> and just hangs there.  It never returns complete.

Try using cvs -z3 and, perhaps, export CVS_RSH=ssh

                        Vladimir Dergachev

> 
> I've tried both servers.  Same results.  I've tried it on a stable system 
> (2.2 kernel, CVS 1.11) and my new machine (kernel 2.4) no change.  Yet when 
> I ping anoncvs.xfree.org, I get 25 msec response.
> 
> If CVS extraction is working or not working for anyone else, I'd like to 
> know.  Is the problem on my side or XFree86 side. TIA for any assitance.
> 
> Brian Douglass
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