Re: freebsd-update fetch hanging in idle state

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 3:22 PM Jonathan Adams <jfadams1963@proton.me>
wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 19th, 2023 at 6:05 PM, Jonathan Adams <
> jfadams1963@proton.me> wrote:
> >
>
> > Seems to be stalling on the actual fetch. Watching network connections
> while it's running shows no activity.
>
> I must correct myself. The updates do seem to be fetched and
> /var/db/freebsd-update/ is populated. Specifically the files/ dir is full
> of the .gz update files.
>
>
> - Jonathan
> ____________________________________________
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> After Turing, numbers began doing things"
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At the point where "(END)" printd, you should have been in your pager,
probably more(8). The pager should have patiently waited until you told it
to exit. The parent process should have then awakened and proceeded. 'q'
exits more.

It is very possible that you tried this, but your message did not indicate
it.

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