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On Aug 25, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Jia-Shiun Li wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:30 AM, George Mitchell =
<george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote:
>> What's a pretty good recent Raspberry Pi svn checkout version?  =
254544
>> doesn't seem to be it -- it crashes as soon as I try to make install =
in
>> /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg.  Although I'm tempted to grab one of the
>> prebuilt images at http://www.db.net/downloads/, I'll have to be =
doing
>> some recompiling for debug purposes.  I see that latest couple of
>> versions there are 252209 and 250580.  Are those pretty good?  (By
>> "pretty good", I mean capable of running a light load in a fairly
>> stable way over a period of days.)  Thanks for your help!   -- George
>=20
> I got the same question. I was trying to update RPi this week, but
> several attempts has failed. RPi would hang at high load like
> "portsnap fetch extract" or "cd /usr/ports/graphics/graphviz && make
> install clean". By "hang" I mean ssh session and console had no
> response. But it still replies to ICMP and TCP connection handshake
> requests. Looks like something got stuck in the kernel.

Do you have a serial console?

If so, is it still responsive there?

I've been seeing a similar problem on BB.  In those
cases, typing a key on the serial console unblocks it.

Tim