[BUG] SMLoader not handling download errors (critical for 3.6full)

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Mon Sep 1 06:10:09 UTC 2003


On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:16:49PM -0400, Doug Way wrote:
> >
> >	Error: error occured retrieving 
> >http://www.ira.uka.de/~marcus/System-Benchmarking.st:
> >	Server www.ira.uka.de is not responding
> >
> >Of course, this can happen. But the error should be caught and this 
> >package should simply be skipped, perhaps with a notice afterwards 
> >("loading package ... failed, try again later by doing ...").
> >
> >IMHO this is a critical error, as it will severely confuse someone who 
> >tries to get a full image (who likely is no hard-core squeaker).
> 
> I ran into this too yesterday (although that server seems to be fine 
> right now).
We had a scheduled power maintanance this weekend... the servers
are up and running again... 

   Marcus

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