While working on a pull-up request, I see syssrc checkouts
consistently stall and fail at the same place. This is on netbsd-1.5
release.

The initial request was for all of syssrc - and several directories
are fetched, but it always stalls at mbr:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co \
  -r netbsd-1-5-RELEASE syssrc/sys/arch/arc/stand/mbr

Output is:

cvs server: Updating syssrc/sys/arch/arc/stand/mbr
[pause several minutes]
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

Have tried with the .jp. server with the same result.

Any ideas what is wrong?