Installing Alt-F packages problems

[Sławek Wiśniewski]

When I try to install the Alt-F packages, I get the following error:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/wisnia

Installing ipkg

Trying sourceforge.net... fail, no such host.

Trying sourceforge.net... fail, no such host.

You don't seem to have a name server configured, or a working internet connection, and no /tmp/ipkg_*_arm.ipk file found. Exiting

 When I SSH to the machine and do 'ping google.com' it seems don't work.

 ping: bad address 'www.google.com'

How to configure my internet connection? 

 

 my file:

# cat httpd.conf 
A:127.0.0.1 #!# Allow local loopback connections
D:* #!# Deny from other IP connections
A:192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 #!# Allow local net

# cat resolv.conf 
search WISIENKI
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220 

# cat interfaces 
auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.1.5
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.1.255
  mtu 1500
  gateway 192.168.1.1 

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1C:F0:A8:0A:41  
          inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:47505719 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:89694236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3909006044 (3.6 GiB)  TX bytes:669654135 (638.6 MiB)
          Interrupt:21 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:95060 (92.8 KiB)  TX bytes:95060 (92.8 KiB) 

# cat ipkg.conf
src feed_1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/stable
src feed_2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable
dest /Alt-F /Alt-F 

 # cat hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.5 Home_library.WISIENKI Home_library

 

[João Cardoso]

I can't see nothing wrong with your settings.

The name servers are OK, probably is the gateway that is not well configured.

Is 192.168.1.1 the IP or your router?

Can you ping 192.168.1.1 from the box?

Can you ping and external IP such as 213.30.5.32? (the output of 'nslookup google.com' on my system)

If you don't know all the networking details you can try using the DHCP method from Setup->Host, if you router has a DHCP server (most has) but the box IP will probably change after Submitting.

[Sławek Wiśniewski]

Thank you for fast replay. Problem ideed was in wrong configured my router (mac adress binding). Now is everything ok.

Thanks ...

[vijay]

Sorry to rekindle an old topic...my nameserver is also the same as th OP's.  All the pings to external names and IPs work fine. But when I run the Alt F packages, I get

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/md0
Installing ipkg
Trying dl.dropbox.com... fail, no Packages file.
Trying dl.dropbox.com... fail, no Packages file.
You don't seem to have a name server configured, or a working internet connection, and no /tmp/ipkg_*_arm.ipk file found. Exiting 

An error occurred  

thanks

Vj

[K Robert]

It's a SourceForge problem from yesterday. Packages are offline for the moment...

[vijay]

Thanks.

Still, same error, as of Sat 4 AM Eastern Time.

[3p141592654]

Same problem week later.  I can go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/stable and see the files are there. I can ping sourceforge.net from the command line so I am pretty sure there is not a network issue with Alt-f.

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/Volume_1
Installing ipkg
Trying sourceforge.net... fail, no Packages file.
Trying sourceforge.net... fail, no Packages file.
You don't seem to have a name server configured, or a working internet connection, and no /tmp/ipkg_*_arm.ipk file found. Exiting

An error occurred

[3p141592654]

I see that there has been a huge "storage fault" at Slashdot. Looks like a nightmare for them. We will just have to be patient it seems.

"On 7/16, Slashdot Media sites (including Slashdot and SourceForge) experienced a storage fault."

Progress updates can be found here.

http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-infrastructure-and-service-restoration-update-for-724/

[3p141592654]

July 25, 2015 and the Alt-f package repository is back online.

[Дима Гусев]

Hello!

I have the same problem:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/md0
Installing ipkg
Trying dl.dropbox.com... fail, no Packages file.
Trying dl.dropbox.com... fail, no Packages file.
You don't seem to have a name server configured, or a working internet connection, and no /tmp/ipkg_*_arm.ipk file found. Exiting 
An error occurred
And even though Alt-f package repository is online i cant install  packages.
ping from the box 213.30.5.32 work.
May be ther is another repository that i can use to install packages?

[João Cardoso]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 00:09:00 UTC+1, Дима Гусев wrote:

Hello!

I have the same problem:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/md0
Installing ipkg
Trying dl.dropbox.com...

What version of Alt-F are you using?  Latest is RC4.1, upgrade to it. dl.dropbox.com is not used since 2012...

[Дима Гусев]

Sorry, thats my mistake.

I didn`t delete quote from the first post/

My error mesege is:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/Main

Installing ipkg
Trying sourceforge.net... Segmentation fault
fail, no Packages file.
Trying sourceforge.net... fail, no such host.
You don't seem to have a name server configured, or a working internet connection, and no /tmp/ipkg_*_arm.ipk file found. Exiting

An error occurred 

среда, 19 августа 2015 г., 18:33:10 UTC+3 пользователь João Cardoso написал:

[João Cardoso]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:45:43 UTC+1, Дима Гусев wrote:

Sorry, thats my mistake.

I didn`t delete quote from the first post/

My error mesege is:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/Main

Installing ipkg
Trying sourceforge.net... Segmentation fault
fail, no Packages file.
Trying sourceforge.net... fail, no such host.
You don't seem to have a name server configured, or a working internet connection, and no /tmp/ipkg_*_arm.ipk file found. Exiting

An error occurred 

Need box model/hw rev, logs (system configuration log), ... read this forum welcome message.

What does the command 'nslookup sourceforge.net' prints when using the command line?

[Дима Гусев]

Сorrect my mistake:

DNS-323-B1

Alt-F-0.1RC4.1, kernel 3.10.32

[root@NAS]# nslookup sourceforge.net

Server:    192.168.1.1

Address 1: 192.168.1.1 my.router

Segmentation fault

среда, 19 августа 2015 г., 18:54:24 UTC+3 пользователь João Cardoso написал:

[João Cardoso]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 17:16:52 UTC+1, Дима Гусев wrote:

Сorrect my mistake:

DNS-323-B1

Alt-F-0.1RC4.1, kernel 3.10.32

[root@NAS]# nslookup sourceforge.net

Server:    192.168.1.1

Address 1: 192.168.1.1 my.router

Segmentation fault

I'm puzzled... everything on your system looks OK. Everything else is working, or are there other strange things happening?

Have you already rebooted the box?

Can you transfer files to/from the box within your internal network?

Does 'wget' works, when given an IP instead of a name? Try

wget -O /tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk

[Дима Гусев]

Nothing stange, no error or anything else.

i`v reboot it not onece.

Samba works greate.

wget comand:

[root@NAS]# wget /tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_
arm.ipk
/tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk: Scheme missing.
--2015-08-20 01:27:24--  http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk
Connecting to 216.34.181.60:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk [following]
--2015-08-20 01:27:24--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk
Resolving sourceforge.net... Segmentation fault
[root@NAS]# wget -O /tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163
-3_arm.ipk
--2015-08-20 01:27:58--  http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk
Connecting to 216.34.181.60:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk [following]
--2015-08-20 01:27:58--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk
Resolving sourceforge.net... Segmentation fault
[root@NAS]# cd/tmp
-sh: cd/tmp: not found
[root@NAS]# cd /tmp
[root@NAS]# ls
alt-f.log                db                       log                      sys
board                    ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk  run
cache                    lib                      settings_saved
cookie                   lock                     spool

Once the box wrote this error:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/Main
Installing ipkg
ar: short read
tar: can't open 'control.tar.gz': No such file or directory
awk: control: No such file or directory
Downloaded wrong package?

As you allready undertend, i`m noob is linux.

So may be i do some thing wrong then i install alt-f or setup it? 
среда, 19 августа 2015 г., 21:47:13 UTC+3 пользователь João Cardoso написал:

[João Cardoso]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:47:57 UTC+1, Дима Гусев wrote:

Nothing stange, no error or anything else.

i`v reboot it not onece.

Sorry, I don't understand. Have you rebooted it or have you not?

 

Samba works greate.

wget comand:

[root@NAS]# wget /tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_
arm.ipk
/tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk: Scheme missing.
--2015-08-20 01:27:24--  http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk
Connecting to 216.34.181.60:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently

OK, so networking is working to the outside world

Location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk [following]
--2015-08-20 01:27:24--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk
Resolving sourceforge.net... Segmentation fault
[root@NAS]# wget -O /tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163
-3_arm.ipk
--2015-08-20 01:27:58--  http://216.34.181.60/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk
Connecting to 216.34.181.60:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk [following]
--2015-08-20 01:27:58--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/files/pkgs/unstable/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk

but resolving hostnames is not.

It can be your router or ISP nameserver that sends some unexpected response, or some Alt-F misconfigured file.

Let's try first another nameserver (google public name server). Try

nslookup sourceforge.net 8.8.8.8

Also get a segmentation fault? Please post the command full output.

If you also got a seg. fault, please attach (not inline) the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts. Those are the only two files that 'nslookup' reads. I expect them to be OK, as at first your router is contacted and its IP and name returned:

[root@NAS]# nslookup sourceforge.net

Server:    192.168.1.1

Address 1: 192.168.1.1 my.router

If you don't got a seg. fault, but something like:

[root@dns-320l]# nslookup sourceforge.net 8.8.8.8

Server:    8.8.8.8

Address 1: 8.8.8.8 google-public-dns-a.google.com

Name:      sourceforge.net

Address 1: 216.34.181.60 ch3.sourceforge.net

then the issue is your router or ISP (or busybox Alt-F). Go to Setup->Host and fill in '8.8.8.8' as the "Name server 1" and submit.

Resolving sourceforge.net... Segmentation fault
[root@NAS]# cd/tmp
-sh: cd/tmp: not found
[root@NAS]# cd /tmp
[root@NAS]# ls
alt-f.log                db                       log                      sys
board                    ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk  run
cache                    lib                      settings_saved
cookie                   lock                     spool

Once the box wrote this error:

Installing Alt-F in /mnt/Main
Installing ipkg
ar: short read
tar: can't open 'control.tar.gz': No such file or directory
awk: control: No such file or directory
Downloaded wrong package?

The wget command has partially downloaded a file that the Alt-F package manager tries to use. Remove it by using the command

rm /tmp/ipkg_0.99.163-3_arm.ipk

As you allready undertend, i`m noob is linux.

So may be i do some thing wrong then i install alt-f or setup it? 

I don't think so, the first login wizard its pretty easy to follow, although I noticed that you have not followed it completely, as you have no timezone (country/city) setup. Have you skip it?

[Дима Гусев]

Sorry, I don't understand. Have you rebooted it or have you not?

Yes, i`v rebooted it.

nslookup sourceforge.net 8.8.8.8

[root@NAS]# nslookup sourceforge.net 8.8.8.8

Server:    8.8.8.8

Address 1: 8.8.8.8 google-public-dns-a.google.com

Name:      sourceforge.net

Address 1: 216.34.181.60 ch3.sourceforge.net

then the issue is your router or ISP (or busybox Alt-F). Go to Setup->Host and fill in '8.8.8.8' as the "Name server 1" and submit.

 Alt-F package intalled. So i think the problem with setup of my router?

I don't think so, the first login wizard its pretty easy to follow, although I noticed that you have not followed it completely, as you have no timezone (country/city) setup. Have you skip it?

No, i didn`t skip it. There are some problem with time is our time zone? but that because we don`t have summer or winter time shift.

Anyway, thank u for help!

[João Cardoso]

On Sunday, 23 August 2015 13:06:17 UTC+1, Дима Гусев wrote:

Sorry, I don't understand. Have you rebooted it or have you not?

Yes, i`v rebooted it.

nslookup sourceforge.net 8.8.8.8

[root@NAS]# nslookup sourceforge.net 8.8.8.8

Server:    8.8.8.8

Address 1: 8.8.8.8 google-public-dns-a.google.com

Name:      sourceforge.net

Address 1: 216.34.181.60 ch3.sourceforge.net

then the issue is your router or ISP (or busybox Alt-F). Go to Setup->Host and fill in '8.8.8.8' as the "Name server 1" and submit.

 Alt-F package intalled. So i think the problem with setup of my router?

I don't think so,

Probably it was not your own fault when you setup the router, after all your other computers are working OK, right?

The router itself  seems to supply DNS info in a way that Alt-F (busybox) can't handle. When Alt-F started using a Google name server instead of your router name server all went OK.