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Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote:
> On 6/24/2010 3:30 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>>
>> On 6/24/2010 3:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 6/24/2010 11:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> Is there a problem with gnomecanvas2 package?
>>>>
>>>>> setup.exe hasn't changed since April so it's hard to see how any
>>>>> problem
>>>>> you'd be having would be related to anything other than your local
>>>>> network configuration.
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't suggesting there was anything wrong with setup.
>>>> Perhaps a problem with one or more packages?
>>>
>>> Maybe you weren't but since packages are just a stream of bytes if
>>> setup.exe stops downloading them it isn't the package's fault. It's
>>> setup.exe's. Since lots of people are downloading packages, and since
>>> packages are just a stream of bytes that get copied to disk, the problem
>>> still points to an issue on your side if a download stops halfway
>>> through.
>>>
>>> "Your side" might be something as simple as bad connectivity with the
>>> mirror that you've chosen so trying another mirror would make sense.
>>
>> Re: multiple mirrors attempts: been there, failed at that!
>
> Well, if you want to provide information about a specific site and
> package that failed for you, I will try to install it from that
> site and another of my choosing, if you're looking for a sanity test.
> Like Chris, I'm skeptical that there's a general issue here but
> certainly if there's some specific site and package to try, that's
> easy enough for me (or anyone else for that matter ;-) ) to try.
>
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Hello!
As of the past few hours I've been trying some mirrors. As it happens
some of the mirrors report to the setup program that the program can't
download the setup.ini file.

This happens with at least two of the three I choose.

Also the interrupted download happens when the very last item is being
retrieved, the one that instructs the entire series on what to do, the
_update-info-dir file for example.

I'll keep trying. As for space issues, there is plenty there.
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