[squeak-dev] Metacello bootstrap fails due to download timeouts

Jakob Reschke forums.jakob at resfarm.de
Mon Jul 13 17:28:01 UTC 2020


Maybe, but it did not even get to the steps that involve GitHub as far
as I can tell. Also the 32 bit trunk builds already failed before
today.

Am Mo., 13. Juli 2020 um 19:23 Uhr schrieb Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>:
>
>
> > On 13.07.2020, at 19:22, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My Travis CI builds for Squeak-Trunk 32 bits (and only these) started to
> > fail due to timeouts. When I looked at it in a Linux VM and it fails
> > to download Metacello-Base-dkh.109.mcz from SmalltalkHub. When I try
> > to access this version with a web browser, I get an error HTTP 500
> > VoMongoConnectionError
> > http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/dkh/metacello/main/Metacello-Base-dkh.109.mcz
>
>
> Github was down today.
> -t
>
> >
> > A fresh 64 bit Trunk image from squeak.org when run on Windows instead
> > hangs when
> > downloading Metacello-Core-dkh.494.mcz when I do `Metacello new`.
> > Eventually it erred with "Error: retry with alternate repository
> > failed: 'ConnectionTimedOut: Data receive timed out.'" ...after about
> > half an hour or so. The error comes from
> > ConfigurationOfMetacello>>ensureMetacello:. Though it does look as if
> > it first tried with a repository at
> > http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/ss/metacello and not SmalltalkHub. I
> > can download the version in a web browser without a problem:
> > http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/ss/metacello/Metacello-Core-dkh.494.mcz
> >
> > Yet a local 64 bit trunk smalltalkCI build succeeded and I don't know
> > why yet. It also needs to go through the MetacelloStub, doesn't it?
> >
> > For a start, does anyone experience the same problem or is it my bad
> > luck with the connections? To test, print `Metacello new` in a fresh image
> > which does not have the Metacello class yet.
> >
> > Now SmalltalkHub is deprecated as you can read on its
> > front page. http://smalltalkhub.com/
> >
> > Tom, Tobias, Dale, you already started to discuss changing the
> > bootstrap of current Metacello in Squeak when the Tonel changes were
> > integrated, didn't you? Is there a path where we can live without any
> > unmaintained repositories like the ones on SmalltalkHub?
> >
> > On a different level: shouldn't the bootstrapping of the
> > MetacelloStub, or rather the downloading of version signal an error
> > with a timeout sooner when it cannot retrieve a
> > version, instead of waiting or retrying for a long time?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Jakob
> >
>
>


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