GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 137679
Connection timeout errors due to wget timeout settings
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
With GARNOME 2.5.91, I get lots of connection timeout errors like this: --- Resolving ftp.gnome.org... done. Connecting to ftp.gnome.org[130.239.18.137]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,631,251 [application/x-tar] 7% [=> ] 120,324 5.04K/s ETA 04:52 15:10:15 (5.04 KB/s) - Read error at byte 120324/1631251 (Connection timed out). Retrying. --- This happens again and again every ~150-200kb. After editing gar.lib.mk and increasing wget -T 10 to wget -T 30, everything works fine. As it is really annoying to tweak this with every new GARNOME version: is it necessary to have such a short connection timeout, or couldn't just wget's default settings being used?
I thought 10 was better than the default, which is why I put it in there to start with... ;-) I've upped it to 30 for the next release. Thanks!
If you're changing it in the next release, add a '-t 0' (try forever) as well. I find it very annoying if I start 'make paranoid-install' in the morning, and when I come home that evening I see an error that occured at 10:00am or so because my ISP had a problem.