CVS still broken

[Dave Ashley]

Is this like a secret club where only members can contribute or view the
actual code talked about? How come no one else has any trouble getting hold
of the source or latest CVS, how come everyone else can check in code and
presumably check out latest with no trouble? IT IS BROKEN!!!!!!!!!
http://www.linuxbios.org/developer/download/index.html

This is the page that says what to do to download.

The CVS repository is maintained at SourceForge.net (project name "FreeBIOS"). You can download the daily snapshot of
                  the entire source tree or use CVS directly:

% cvs
                  -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot/freebios login

Hit return when it asks you for a password. Then checkout (or update) the freebios source tree:

% cvs -z3
                  -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot/freebios co freebios

When you actually try to do the first cvs login, this happens:
cvs -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot/freebios login
Logging in to :pserver:[e-mail]:2401/cvsroot/freebios
CVS password: 
cvs [login aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

The daily snapshot link is broken:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/freebios-cvsroot.tar.gz

What am I missing?

-Dave

[ron minnich]

you're not missing anything. Sourceforge is sucking big time.

if it is not fixed soon, I'll be moving my projects.

ron

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Well, according to the joker in charge of Source Forge, as a whole,
CVS was supposed to be moved to a larger, and bigger box, starting
sometime this week. Ron, here's a suggestion, keep collecting these
complaints, make a note as to the date, and time of each complaint. If
it isn't fixed, by say November say, then go ahead, and do so. But I
think Source Forge will completely repair it by then.

Personally I think there is way too much stuff stored in CVS, that
hasn't been accessed in over a year, as opposed to active projects
like ours.

Dave, this is the second time you've posted this message, what was the
actual message that CVS returned? Was it exactly what you've posted?
Yes, keep complaining here. But also complain to the people at Source
Forge, this is their problem not ours.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:linuxbios-
> [e-mail]] On Behalf Of ron minnich
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:15 PM
> To: Dave Ashley
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: CVS still broken
>
> you're not missing anything. Sourceforge is sucking big time.
>
> if it is not fixed soon, I'll be moving my projects.
>
> ron
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[ron minnich]

Yeah, but .... it's free. It's hard to complain too hard.

ron

[Niki Waibel]

> Yeah, but .... it's free. It's hard to complain too hard.

i always start my update like this:
$ while ! cvs update; do sleep 5; done

normally after about 5 retries you get a connection.
but i've had days in which 25 retries were done...

niki