fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Thu Jul 5 12:16:48 UTC 2007


On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:42:44 +0100
RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:34:16 +0800
> "Dinesh Pandian" <dineshpandian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Good day all!
> > 
> > Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs
> > me everytime I try to install applications from ports.
> > 
> > When I try to run portupgrade -a  or  portmanager -u,
> > when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch
> > normally hangs randomly sometime through the downloading
> > of the distfile. The only solution I've thought about is aborting
> > the upgrade procedure and issuing the same command again,
> > hoping that fetch resumes where it left off.
> 
> 
> This is a bit of a long-shot, but if you are using pf, and the
> relevant rule has a "modulate state", try changing it to "keep state" 
> 
> Otherwise, what is the output of 
> 
> make  -V FETCH_CMD

Sorry, forgot to mention, you have to be in a port directory for that to
work.


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