Mac OS X 10.4.8 fails to darcs get --verbose --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

Recently, my buildbot slave on Mac OS X 10.4.8 has consistently failed in the 
darcs get of the HEAD. Interestingly, I am able to get the 6.6 branch: darcs 
get --verbose --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-6.6/ghc seems to work 
fine.

Here are some details of a manual attempt to get the HEAD::

$ darcs get --verbose --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc
This is the GHC darcs repository (HEAD branch)

For more information, visit the GHC developer wiki at
  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc
**********************
Reading checkpoint...
Getting the inventory...

At this point, nothing seems to happen for a long time. Eventually, I kill -9 
the darcs process and matters then develop as follows:

Killed
$ ls -lR ghc
total 576
drwxr-xr-x   7 thorkiln  thorkiln     238 May  6 13:45 _darcs
-rw-------   1 thorkiln  thorkiln  294912 May  6 13:46 darcsoomn4l

ghc/_darcs:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 thorkiln  thorkiln   68 May  6 13:45 checkpoints
drwxr-xr-x   2 thorkiln  thorkiln   68 May  6 13:45 inventories
drwxr-xr-x   2 thorkiln  thorkiln   68 May  6 13:45 patches
drwxr-xr-x   7 thorkiln  thorkiln  238 May  6 13:45 prefs
drwxr-xr-x   2 thorkiln  thorkiln   68 May  6 13:45 pristine

ghc/_darcs/checkpoints:

ghc/_darcs/inventories:

ghc/_darcs/patches:

ghc/_darcs/prefs:
total 32
-rw-r--r--   1 thorkiln  thorkiln  395 May  6 13:45 binaries
-rw-r--r--   1 thorkiln  thorkiln  534 May  6 13:45 boring
-rw-r--r--   1 thorkiln  thorkiln   29 May  6 13:45 defaultrepo
-rw-r--r--   1 thorkiln  thorkiln    0 May  6 13:45 motd
-rw-r--r--   1 thorkiln  thorkiln   29 May  6 13:45 repos

ghc/_darcs/pristine:
$ tail -20 ghc/darcsoomn4l
 do .c->.s->.o in one stage instead of two).
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[[project @ 2005-04-26 15:08:16 by simonmar]
simonmar**20050426150816
 When chasing explicit imports, we now look for the module in both the
 home package and external packages, and complain if it is found in
 both:

 Chasing modules from: Overlap
 Cannot import `List':
   it was found in both overlap/List.hs and package haskell98-1.0.
   Possible fix: -ignore-package haskell98-1.0
   (imported from overlap/Overlap.hs)

 Previously the home module would have been ignored in favour of the
 package module.  It means we're doing a bit more searching, but the
 behaviour is less obscure.
]
[[project @ 2005-04-26 15:44:48 by simonmar]
si$ darcs --version
1.0.8 (release)
$ curl --version
curl 7.15.5 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8d 
zlib/1.2.3
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: Largefile NTLM SSL libz
$

Help to fix this problem would be most welcome.

Best regards
Thorkil