Process hangs while updating to latest version (sometimes)

[joeschmoe40]

I have a script that runs "youtube-dl.py -U" once a day, to make sure that I am kept up-to-date on the latest version. Occasionally, meaning twice out of the last four update attempts, the process has hung doing the update. I can tell by running 'ps' that it is still running:

python /path/to/bin/youtube-dl.py -U

I can tell by a "ls -lsa youtube-dl.py" that the file size has stopped growing, and seems to be about 8K bytes short of what it should be (i.e., of the size of the new version)

Finally, I can tell by running it (while the "-U" version is still running) that it still identifies itself as the "old" (I.e., previous) version.

To remedy this, I have to kill the process and try the update again. It has generally succeeded on the second attempt.

[joeschmoe40]

12 days have gone by - and no response?

Hmmm. Hope it didn't just fall into a bit-bucket somewhere.

[joeschmoe40]

Bueller? Bueller?