[Librem-5-dev] Problems downloading from the Jenkins site?

[Dorota Czaplejewicz]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:15:30 -0700
Chris Hessing via Librem-5-dev <librem-5-dev at lists.community.puri.sm> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I'll be sending a few e-mails to this list today, as a way of keeping a 
> bunch of issues separate.   If this e-mail belongs on a different list, 
> please let me know.
> 
> 
> I've had some problems downloading anything from the Jenkins site that 
> holds the emulator images and other tools. 
> (https://arm01.puri.sm/job/Images/job/Image%20Build/)
> 
> 
> I first noticed the issue when attempting to flash a current image to my 
> dev board.   During the process, there is something that is downloaded 
> from that site.   I tried numerous times, and was unable to get the 
> transfer to complete.   Worse, because of how that component is 
> downloaded, it isn't a transfer that can be restarted.   I ultimately 
> had to hack the script to work around the problem and get the board 
> flashed.  (Sorry this is light on details.  It was a few weeks ago, and 
> I figured it was just a transient problem with my connection.)
> 
> 
> But, last week I saw the problem again while attempting to download the 
> QEMU image to run in an emulator.   I initially attempted to download 
> the QEMU image using the brave browser. After the 2nd attempt to 
> download it failed, I decided that I would try wget to see if I could 
> restart the failed transfer, and eventually get the file.   wget 
> restarted the attempt around 20 times before giving up.   I restarted it 
> again, this time using a command line parameter to attempt to restart an 
> infinite number of times.   It took 40 or 50 retries, but I was finally 
> able to download the image (and, it actually worked!).
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if this is a known issue.   Or, if it isn't a known issue, 
> if I can assist in any way to figure out what is going on. (I know how 
> to use a sniffer, and am willing to provide access to a VM from my home 
> to allow someone to work on this problem.)
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Hi Chris,

we've had one similar report. Would you mind posting traceroute (and tcptraceroute on port 443) results? Are you using wget inside a VM on Windows?

The flashing script can continue downloading since Monday, so I hope you can use it without hacks now.

Cheers,
Dorota
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