Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 06:02:59 +0800 From: "Dinesh Pandian" <dineshpandian@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u.. Message-ID: <3ea3ac8f0707061502t141b9933wc5c5307e1a31abee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44vecx4lwv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <3ea3ac8f0707041134o462a9e03od7223643d373ca49@mail.gmail.com> <44fy433t4c.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3ea3ac8f0707050827s165d532cs8967f46a7d48d4f3@mail.gmail.com> <44vecx4lwv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Sorry about that. Okay. will try downloading something large with fetch with increased verbosity switch. Thanks guys! On 7/6/07, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > Please don't top-post. > > "Dinesh Pandian" <dineshpandian@gmail.com> writes: > > > On 7/5/07, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> > wrote: > >> > >> "Dinesh Pandian" <dineshpandian@gmail.com> 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.
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