cvsup connection problems [was Re: how to update source tree without cvs?]

[Lowell Gilbert]

yew chin <yutaka82 at yahoo.com> writes:

> thanks for answering, i will try to learn how to use
> ctm. But 1 thing really weird is that, when i use
> cvsup, i can establish connection to the cvsup server.
> But it doesn't download the src and ports.
> here is the output of my cvsup
> 
> Connecting to cvsup10.freebsd.org
> Connected to cvsup10.freebsd.org
> Server software version: SNAP_16_1e
> Negotiating file attribute support
> Exchanging collection information
> Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection
> Running
> 
> as i can tell i have successfully make a connection to
> the cvsup server, but the screen just froze after the
> "running" line, it doesn't show anything after that. i
> just wonder what have prevent my computer downloading
> the src and ports.
> any ideas?

Well, it's not a firewall problem; the connection is getting through
the firewall just fine.  Check to see if cvsup is exchanging any data;
maybe the transfer is just slow.  Also, you could try increasing the
verbosity of cvsup to see if *it* knows anything that's going wrong.