[Nix-dev] Network problems

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 25/03/13 12:26, Marco Maggesi wrote:

> on OSX I keep getting strange problems when downloading binary substitutes.
> Usually I have to rerun several time the same command until it succeeds.
> E.g.,
> 
> $ nix-build -I nixpkgs=~/Devel/nixpkgs
> fetching path `/nix/store/zy27vsm8q6pqjb8pipfhimq3k891lj2v-diffutils-3.2'...
> 
> *** Downloading
> ‘http://nixos.org/binary-cache/nar/14sg6fz38x5in70w2cjd5qnca83m4z1xa8cfpk4wpn6mhkw0rjaq.nar.bz2’
> to ‘/nix/store/zy27vsm8q6pqjb8pipfhimq3k891lj2v-diffutils-3.2’...
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100  201k  100  201k    0     0   309k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  309k
> 
> fetching path `/nix/store/zy27vsm8q6pqjb8pipfhimq3k891lj2v-diffutils-3.2'

Hm, very strange that it's saying "fetching path" again.  Can you get a stack
trace (ulimit -c, gdb, ...)?

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/