On 03 Dec 2007, at 04:03, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jean-François Mertens wrote: >> I get since some time regularly failures of fink selfupdate with >> msgs like cvs update: cannot open directory >> /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/ crypto/finkinfo: Cannot allocate >> memory >> >> I get those as well when using explicitly /usr/bin/cvs, so it is >> not due to fink's cvs pkg. This happens even when local memory >> usage is low _ say 1.4 out of 2 G. >> >> In general when retrying, especially dir after dir and with a naked >> 'cvs up' without adornations, things go away and one gets through. >> Tonight not... >> >> The ref to "/cvsroot/fink/dists/" suggests it may be either a >> memory problem or an error on the other side.. (In general I get >> this on rather big dirs _ eg, 'libs' _ but tonight even on smaller >> ones like crypto) >> >> Anyone else experiencing this ? Is it really a sourceforge problem >> ? >> >> JF >> >> PS: crypto finally got through, after ~8 iterations > I have, and others have talked about it on IRC.
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