From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 7:51:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0409C156A5 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 07:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id KAA21446; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904131448.KAA21446@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Problems installing ports... In-Reply-To: <19990413012909.A22843@drwho.xnet.com> from Michael Maxwell at "Apr 13, 99 01:29:09 am" To: drwho@xnet.com (Michael Maxwell) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Maxwell wrote, > I have installed 3.1-R from cdrom, and upgraded to 3.1-Stable through cvsup, > etc... > > When attempting to build/install a port, I cd /usr/ports/whatever and > do "make install". The "fetch" program starts, but then hangs and goes > nowhere. this happened on the 3.1-R as well as the 3.1-Stable. > > In the end, I have to ftp the file manually. So far, I've gotten a port > to install correctly only ONCE (I forget which one it was). All the others > I had to ftp manually, *then* run make install... > > Any ideas? Are you behind a firewall? Can you run 'fetch' effectively from the command line? Have you ever had any odd problems from ftp with a firewall or DNS? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message