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Offline nassausky

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Mirror picker freezes during initial startup at times
« on: October 31, 2013, 12:33:49 PM »
I've been booting lots of times and I will have to keep an eye on exactly which version (whether it was a remastered or original version of 5.02) which always freezes but I believe it's both.  Is anyone else having the problem that mirrorpicker freezes in the middle of finding a mirror and by typing 'pkill mirrorpicker' in a term session it continues to the app browser without a problem and a working mirror?


Offline curaga

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Re: Mirror picker freezes during initial startup at times
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2013, 08:02:29 AM »
The default wget timeouts are long, so if a mirror is unresponsive it takes a bit of time for the timeout to kick in. (two minutes if connect fails, 15 minutes if data fails)

We've provided a patch to busybox, and are waiting for a release before we can get shorter timeouts in there.


In the meantime, can you tell which mirror is slow? You should see the wget process in ps output.
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