[darcs-devel] [issue438] gripe: hangs

[rob kinninmont]

New submission from rob kinninmont <robk at allmydata.com>:

So I was just chatting with my co-worker (zooko) again and he reports  
that this mail
never made it to you guys - nor did it bounce.  very curious.

perhaps worth noting also, that I was getting similar behaviour when  
trying to _pull_
from our central repo too.   (i.e. it 'just hangs', '-v -v -v -v'  
makes no difference,
and when I kill it, it reports '^Cdarcs: failed to read patch in  
get_extra:')

I'm currently rsyncing a whole copy of that repo down locally so that  
I can
try again with an all-local setup.  but this has blocked the merge I  
need to
do for over an hour now.

while I like many features of darcs, wasting time for hung  
operations, and/or
spending extra time dealing with exerimental work-arounds, all too  
frequently
grates severely on ones nerves...

cheers,
rob

p.s. I'm on an intel Mac, 10.4.9

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rob Kinninmont <robk at allmydata.com>
> Date: April 5, 2007 11:57:46 AM PDT
> To: bugs at darcs.net
> Subject: gripe: hangs
>
>
> so for no readily identifiable reason, darcs has developed a habit  
> of hanging.
>
> I'll dispatch a 'push' from the command line, then it prints  
> 'Pushing to <repo>...'
> and hangs.  sometimes it works. sometimes it takes a couple of  
> tries (each time
> waiting 5-10min doing something else before determining that it's  
> dead) sometimes
> more.
>
> it's kinda frustrating.
>
> """
>   otto:~/trees/trunk/trunk robk$ dpush wol:trees/trunk
>   Pushing to "wol:trees/trunk"...
>
>   ^C
>
>   ^CwithSignalsHandled: Interrupted!
> """
>
>
> anyway, I just said "I wish darcs gave more informative messages  
> about what it's doing,
> so it was clearer what's failing when it hangs." to my co-worker,  
> who said, "Send that
> sentence to "bugs at darcs.net", please."
>
>
> it's mostly the sense of impotence and beholdenness heaped upon the  
> frustration of
> having to deal with a wait-an-indeterminate-period-to-figure-out- 
> whether-it's-hung
> that causes the cursing...
>
>
> I'm running
> otto:~/trees/trunk/trunk robk$ darcs --version
> 1.0.8 (release)
>
>
>
> cheers,
> rob
>

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title: gripe: hangs

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