Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone server hangs

[Stephen Leake]

Hugo Cornelis <address@hidden> writes:

> From time to time, we reinstall a developer PC from scratch, recreate
> the appropriate directory layout and pull the monotone repositories
> from scratch.  Unfortunately pulling a large monotone repository for
> the first time often hangs the monotone server.  This error seems to
> happen in 90% of the trials, although it does not happen always.
> There are no error messages from either side.  Restarting the monotone
> server and interrupting the client allows one to retry to pull the
> repository.
>
> We would appreciate any help to solve this problem.

Not a direct solution to the problem, but a good workaround is to
simply use scp to copy the monotone database on a "from scratch" setup.

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-- Stephe