Re: [minix3] FTP / fetch under VMware fusion fails with NWIOTCPCONN: connection timed out

[Thomas Cort]

Hi,

> VERSION recent, as of 17 may, 2013, no modifications to anything.

"recent" as in you upgraded your installed system to "current" using
these instructions (
http://wiki.minix3.org/en/DevelopersGuide/TrackingCurrent ) as
suggested by the "installing source packages" guide (
http://wiki.minix3.org/en/UsersGuide/InstallingSourcePackages )? The
latest development sources for Minix has a new ftp client that is
incompatible with the old ftp client that shipped with Minix 3.2.1.
pkgsrc was updated to use the new ftp client.

> When I attempt to use bmake to do anything, fetching fails
> Other notes: pkgin works just fine. was able to make-update pkgsrc, too.

So it appears that your networking is working. Perhaps you had bad
luck with packages that had mirrors that weren't good? Try running
"bmake fetch" in /usr/pkgsrc/minix/x11 that package is hosted by Minix
and should always be fetchable.

If that failed, try the ftp/fetch tools from the command line:

ftp http://www.minix3.org/index.html
fetch http://www.minix3.org/

Thomas

[Ben Gras]

Just to add to TC's answer..

 * I added this to the FAQ, http://wiki.minix3.org/en/FAQ#NWIOTCPCONN
 * There is also a new dev snapshot iso so this shouldn't be a problem for people using those any more.

On Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:55:26 AM UTC+2, zt wrote:

FTP / fetch under bmake failing with timeout.

VERSION  recent, as of 17 may, 2013, no modifications to anything.

VMware fusion, mac intel, networking set to bridge mode per vmware faq instructions, 1g ram & 8g store allocated to the vm.

When I attempt to use bmake to do anything, fetching fails with the following error:

Expected results: packages downloaded, compiled and installed.

Actual results: much waiting, bmake repeatedly tries and fails to get a connection.

message repeats:

   ftp: ioctl error on NWIOTCPCONN: connection timed out
   fetch: Unable to fetch expected file XXX

To reproduce the problem: bmake anything in pkgsrc.

[zt]

This solved it, thanks folks!