problems with pkg: Operation timed out

[Antonio Olivares]

On Monday, October 9, 2017, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Manish Jain
> <bourne.identity at hotmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/09/17 22:26, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >> Dear FreeBSD users,
> >>
> >> I want to update the packages in my pc and I keep getting operation
> >> timed out.  Is there a way for pkg to update the packages and avoid
> >> this message?  I have tried for 3 hrs and it stops at the same place,
> >> it fetches llvm-* and then it says operation timed out.  I have run
> >> pkg clean, but the error persists.
> >
> > I am not certain whether this is the right approach, but when I faced
> > that error (with llvm), I did this :
> >
> > open up an additional terms (Alt + F2)
> >
> > In that terminal, run : ping pkg.freebsd.org
> >
> > Return to the F1 terminal and then run :
> >
> > pkg fetch llvm
> >
> > If that solves your problem, do let me know.
> > Manish Jain
> >
> It times out :(
>
> root at aceraspire:~ # ping pkg.freebsd.org
> PING pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org (96.47.72.71): 56 data bytes
> ^C
> --- pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org ping statistics ---
> 18 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
> root at aceraspire:~ # pkg fetch llvm40
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> The following packages will be fetched:
>
> New packages to be FETCHED:
>         llvm40-4.0.1_1 (271 MiB: 100.00% of the 271 MiB to download)
>
> Number of packages to be fetched: 1
>
> The process will require 271 MiB more space.
> 271 MiB to be downloaded.
>
> Proceed with fetching packages? [y/N]: y
> Fetching llvm40-4.0.1_1.txz: 100%  107 MiB 413.9kB/s    04:31
> pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/quarterly/All/
> llvm40-4.0.1_1.txz:
> Operation timed out
>
>
> if I try to update regularly, I get :
>
> Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
>         wx28-gtk2-common-2.8.12_7 (direct dependency changed: gstreamer)
>         wx28-gtk2-2.8.12_7 (direct dependency changed: gstreamer)
>         qt5-multimedia-5.7.1_1 (direct dependency changed:
> gstreamer1-plugins)
>         libdca-0.0.5_1
>         liba52-0.7.4_3
>         gstreamer-0.10.36_6
>         db5-5.3.28_6
>
> Number of packages to be installed: 14
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 75
> Number of packages to be reinstalled: 7
>
> The process will require 11 MiB more space.
> 713 MiB to be downloaded.
>
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> [1/96] Fetching llvm40-4.0.1_1.txz: 100%   82 MiB 477.0kB/s    03:00
> pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/quarterly/All/
> llvm40-4.0.1_1.txz:
> Operation timed out
> root at aceraspire:~ #
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Antonio
>

I try and try again and keep getting timed out error.  Is there another way
to fetch/ download the file? I was going to attempt to download it with
wget?  But I am unsure how to do it?  Is there a way to skip this file?
And get it later?  I have successfully updated on amd64 bit machine, but
this machine is different I had trouble before but was able to update, this
time I have not succeeded.  Thanks Manish for your suggestion, but it times
out as well, if I could run a command to persist till the package downloads
it would help.

Best Regards,


Antonio