Re: [Gumstix-users] buildroot hangs on www.kernel.org

[Jon K. <jk...@65...>]

I've been experiencing major lag to all of kernel.org's network today.

Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote:
> frederick sonnichsen escreveu:
>
>   
>> I am trying to perform a buildroot on version 1173. (773 ran just fine a 
>> few days ago). After starting the make, the script stalls upon a request 
>> to www.kernel.org for the linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 file. After about 2 hours 
>> it appears that 10% of the file is downloaded (we are on  a 100Mbs 
>> link). Is this expectable and is there a work-around?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fritz
>>  
>>
>>     
>
> kernel.org is ECN-enabled and some network routers are buggy on that 
> regard (not to mention you could be experiencing other temporary network 
> problems anywhere along the path).
>
> Abort the download, go to the "dl" buildroot's subdirectory, and try to 
> get linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 from elsewhere. Try this:
>
> cd dl
> wget http://files.gumstix.com/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
>
>
>
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