Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..
Please don't top-post. Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/5/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch normally hangs randomly sometime through the downloading of the distfile. The only solution I've thought about is aborting the upgrade procedure and issuing the same command again, hoping that fetch resumes where it left off. In bigger files, 5MB, I'd have to repeat this process several times to download a single distfile. I've tried setting the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE env ON and OFF to no avail. I can't seem to find a problem with the internet connection as httpd and ftpd works perfectly fine! Is there a firewall in the way? NAT? Have you tried using fetch(1) from the command line, with increased verbosity level? No firewall/NAT along the path. It's a direct connection. I'm pretty new to freebsd so I'm guessing that I did something wrong with network config or something. :) -- Dinesh Possibly, but that would tend to make the transfer not start at all. Try to get more information from the download process, either by increasing the verbosity of the fetch(1) program, by comparing to other FTP download methods, by tracing the traffic, or better yet all of the above. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..
Sorry about that. Okay. will try downloading something large with fetch with increased verbosity switch. Thanks guys! On 7/6/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't top-post. Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/5/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch normally hangs randomly sometime through the downloading of the distfile. The only solution I've thought about is aborting the upgrade procedure and issuing the same command again, hoping that fetch resumes where it left off. In bigger files, 5MB, I'd have to repeat this process several times to download a single distfile. I've tried setting the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE env ON and OFF to no avail. I can't seem to find a problem with the internet connection as httpd and ftpd works perfectly fine! Is there a firewall in the way? NAT? Have you tried using fetch(1) from the command line, with increased verbosity level? No firewall/NAT along the path. It's a direct connection. I'm pretty new to freebsd so I'm guessing that I did something wrong with network config or something. :) -- Dinesh Possibly, but that would tend to make the transfer not start at all. Try to get more information from the download process, either by increasing the verbosity of the fetch(1) program, by comparing to other FTP download methods, by tracing the traffic, or better yet all of the above. -- Regards, Dinesh Pandian, SOLARA Networks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:42:44 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:34:16 +0800 Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day all! Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch normally hangs randomly sometime through the downloading of the distfile. The only solution I've thought about is aborting the upgrade procedure and issuing the same command again, hoping that fetch resumes where it left off. This is a bit of a long-shot, but if you are using pf, and the relevant rule has a modulate state, try changing it to keep state Otherwise, what is the output of make -V FETCH_CMD Sorry, forgot to mention, you have to be in a port directory for that to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..
Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch normally hangs randomly sometime through the downloading of the distfile. The only solution I've thought about is aborting the upgrade procedure and issuing the same command again, hoping that fetch resumes where it left off. In bigger files, 5MB, I'd have to repeat this process several times to download a single distfile. I've tried setting the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE env ON and OFF to no avail. I can't seem to find a problem with the internet connection as httpd and ftpd works perfectly fine! Is there a firewall in the way? NAT? Have you tried using fetch(1) from the command line, with increased verbosity level? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..
No firewall/NAT along the path. It's a direct connection. I'm pretty new to freebsd so I'm guessing that I did something wrong with network config or something. :) -- Dinesh On 7/5/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch normally hangs randomly sometime through the downloading of the distfile. The only solution I've thought about is aborting the upgrade procedure and issuing the same command again, hoping that fetch resumes where it left off. In bigger files, 5MB, I'd have to repeat this process several times to download a single distfile. I've tried setting the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE env ON and OFF to no avail. I can't seem to find a problem with the internet connection as httpd and ftpd works perfectly fine! Is there a firewall in the way? NAT? Have you tried using fetch(1) from the command line, with increased verbosity level? -- Regards, Dinesh Pandian, SOLARA Networks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:34:16 +0800 Dinesh Pandian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day all! Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me everytime I try to install applications from ports. When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch normally hangs randomly sometime through the downloading of the distfile. The only solution I've thought about is aborting the upgrade procedure and issuing the same command again, hoping that fetch resumes where it left off. This is a bit of a long-shot, but if you are using pf, and the relevant rule has a modulate state, try changing it to keep state Otherwise, what is the output of make -V FETCH_CMD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
