Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:57:55 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Dinesh Pandian" <dineshpandian@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u.. Message-ID: <44fy433t4c.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3ea3ac8f0707041134o462a9e03od7223643d373ca49@mail.gmail.com> (Dinesh Pandian's message of "Thu\, 5 Jul 2007 02\:34\:16 %2B0800") References: <3ea3ac8f0707041134o462a9e03od7223643d373ca49@mail.gmail.com>
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"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?
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