From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15301 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2001 06:53:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15266 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2001 06:53:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO granger.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.148) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2001 06:53:05 -0000 Received: from sdn-ar-006watacop191.dialsprint.net ([206.133.239.231] helo=tcprincemobl) by granger.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 164zLb-0007b4-00; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:53:04 -0500 Message-ID: <019101c16f34$81762270$32dd18ac@amr.corp.intel.com> From: "Tim Prince" To: "Trevin Beattie" , References: <3.0.32.20011116153221.00683d44@clay.wh.ca.us> Subject: Re: Installation problems (can't retrieve package files) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00481.txt.bz2 I have found it unusually difficult to download cygwin updates over dial-up lately. The same mirror worked fine over my employer's broad-band connection, but that's a luxury unavailable to most people in our state. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevin Beattie" To: Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:32 PM Subject: Installation problems (can't retrieve package files) > I'm encountering a couple of problems trying to download Cygwin using the > new setup program. To begin with, my primary computer runs Linux, not > Windows, so I can't even run the setup program from there. I have Windows > installed on a virtual machine which is connected to my Linux box on a > private network, and I am able to access the Internet using NAT. > > When I run the setup program from the virtual machine, I get the list of > mirror sites to choose from. The first site I tried out was > ftp://planetmirror.com. This site uses passive ftp, which does not work > through NAT at all; ftp got stuck waiting for a connection which it would > never get. > > The next site I tried was ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov. This time it got the > setup.ini file, and I proceeded to go through the package list, selecting > the components that I wanted to download. By the time I got finished and > told the setup program to start downloading everything, I was bombarded by > a series of failed transfer errors. According to the log, the setup > program had kept the ftp connection open the entire time I was sorting > through the package list, and expected it to still be open by the time I > was finished! The ftp server, on the other hand, had long since timed out > and closed the connection, hence the transfer errors. > > I went back to ftp://planetmirror.com a second time because I hadn't > thought to save the log file as evidence. This time, it couldn't even make > a decent ftp connection; it got stuck in some kind of infinite loop. I > can't even imagine why the log is filled up with "ftp > ("'s. > > These problems could be fixed in the setup program by A) forcing ftp > connections to active mode (or providing a user option to choose passive or > active transfers), and B) closing the ftp connection after fetching > setup.ini, and reopening it when it's time to fetch the rest of the files. > > Fortunately I was able to download Cygwin through the > ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu mirror. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > ----------------------- > Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, > trevin@xmission.com for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." > {:-> --unknown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/