[racket] Planet crashing, hanging upgade during compilation

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 2 07:12:57 EDT 2010

I don't know if this rules out anything at all, but I am able to
download that from my home machine and my machine at my office without
it failing (I'm in Chicago, my office is in Evanston, IL and the
planet server is in Boston if that matters). I just did this:

  wget -c `raco planet url bzlib date-tz.plt 1 0`

Robby

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:28 PM, synx <plt at synx.us.to> wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble seeing the bad behavior you see. One thing is that
>> installing racket doesn't install any planet packages, afaik. Perhaps
>> you can say more carefully what it was you did exactly?
>>
>> Robby
>
> Oh, sorry, yes I should specify more clearly. I install racket in a
> DESTDIR temporary directory as a normal user, and that user has some
> planet packages. When racket installs, setup-raco also descends into the
> user's planet packages and recompiles stuff, downloading as planet finds
> updated packages since the last one. I'm not sure if it's intended to do
> that, but I don't usually give it much mind. Removing ~/.racket allowed
> me to install racket, but the same bad behavior was there once I tried
> to install a planet package greater in size than 300K or so.
>
> To reproduce the bad behavior, try installing bzlib's date-tz on a user
> with an empty planet:
>
> $ raco planet install bzlib date-tz.plt 1 0
>
> When that hangs and you get tired of waiting for it, try just getting
> the URL and manually downloading date-tz.plt:
>
> $ raco planet url bzlib date-tz.plt 1 0
> $ http_proxy= wget -c `raco planet url bzlib date-tz.plt 1 0`
>
> You'll notice that the wget too fails, and hangs in the middle of the
> download of date-tz.plt. I can get anywhere between 15% and 30% before
> it hangs.
>
> And if you try again:
> $ http_proxy= wget -c `raco planet url bzlib date-tz.plt 1 0`
>
> ...you'll notice that planet does not support resuming a download, and
> forces you to start from the beginning again, then hangs again some time
> before the end.
>
> If you don't notice this, then the only thing I can think is it's my ISP
> or something. I tried wget -c something.else.mp3 and it worked just
> fine. But I simply cannot download date-tz.plt from the only planet server.
>
> Can anyone else wget that particular package? I'm thinking that it might
> only be a problem for packages that are larger in size, since the
> smaller packages might fully transfer before the server coughs out.
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