3.5 update servers "seem to be unavailable"?
Julian Fitzell
julian at beta4.com
Fri Jun 20 00:13:57 UTC 2003
You sure that's the network rewrite? I'm pretty sure I've been seeing
that for a while now...
Julian
Doug Way wrote:
>
> And then there is that oddity where the "SqC Internal Updates*" group
> shows up now in the latest 3.6alpha, which somehow snuck in during the
> network rewrite. I can take a look at that... probably just need a
> do-it which removes that server from some server list. (Although having
> the extra group is harmless for now, there are no extra updates in there.)
>
> - Doug Way
>
>
> Doug Way wrote:
>
>> Ned Konz wrote:
>>
>>> I was able to update a 3.6 image without complaint.
>>> However, when I tried to update a 3.5-5180 image, I get a complaint
>>> that "all update servers seem to be unavailable".
>>> Is this a real problem?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm seeing the same thing at the moment. I think I know what's going
>> on here... the main (UIUC) updates site happens to be down right now
>> for whatever reason. (although it seems that I can ftp to it
>> directly... hmm)
>>
>> When you try to load updates and tell it to use the Squeak Public
>> Updates (North American) group of servers, it tries both the UIUC site
>> and the backup site. Early on during 3.6alpha we changed the backup
>> updates site from squeaklet.com (Michael Rueger's machine) to one at
>> squeakfoundation.com. It looks like Michael has probably finally
>> taken down squeaklet.com for his own use, which he was planning to do
>> eventually. So, in 3.5, both North American servers (UIUC and
>> squeaklet.com) are down, but in 3.6, the squeakfoundation server is
>> still up.
>>
>> However, in 3.5, you can still choose to update with the European
>> Squeak Updates group, and that works.
>>
>> I'm guessing UIUC should come back up soon...
>>
>> - Doug Way
>>
>>
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