hmm, on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:44:21AM +0200, Jan Stary said that > On Aug 13 02:33:09, frantisek holop wrote: > > hi there, > > > > i welcome everyone reading this mail with the hollywood plot like > > subject line. > > > > here's what's happening, plain and simple: during the upgrade process, > > for some months now --- every couple of week i upgrade to -current --- > > the upgrade process stops/stalls always exactly at 77% of base46.tgz. > > no amount of waiting helps. the script has to be interrupted and then > > started again in which case it finishes as if nothing has ever happened. > > > > the destination (wd0a) is checked with fsck during the upgrade process, > > the flash disk (sd0a) i am installing from has been checked with fsck. > > i think corrupt files/archives/file systems can be ruled out. > > > wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <SILICONMOTION SM223AC> > > wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3815MB, 7815024 sectors > > wd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 > > How long have you been waiting after the stall? Seriously. > I wouldn't be surprised if it took this card a _long_ time > before making the next write.
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