installation problem of iRODS

[Yaling Zheng]

I am trying to install iRODS 3.0 but I was notified that "The FTP server 'ftp10.us.postgresql.org' did not respond when trying to download". I tried several times but still the same problem. Anyone know what the problem is?

Thanks!
-Yaling

Below is the detail of the installation error
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Build and configure
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Preparing...
    Running 'irodsctl --quiet stop' in case previous is running.

Installing Postgres database...
       
        Step 1 of 4:  Preparing to install...
            Stopping existing Postgres servers...
                Skipped.  No servers running.
       
        Step 2 of 4:  Installing Postgres...
            Downloading postgresql-9.0.3.tar.gz...
       
        Download problem:
            The FTP server 'ftp10.us.postgresql.org' did not respond when trying to download
            the file 'postgresql-9.0.3.tar.gz' needed for this installation.  The server
            may be overloaded or down for maintenance.  Please try again later.
       
            See the log for further details:
                Log:  /home/yzheng/iRODS/installLogs/installPostgres.log
Installation failed.  Please see the log file for details:
    /home/yzheng/iRODS/installLogs/installPostgres.log

[schr...@diceresearch.org]

You can try changing 3 lines in installPostgres.pl as per the svn log entry below.  When I made this change I wasn't sure if the old site was permanently gone or not, but it appears to be.  The next release will use the version below.

 - Wayne -

Author: schroede
Date: Mon Dec  5 14:20:48 2011
New Revision: 4625

Log:
Change the default ftp site for downloading postgres and ODBC as both
the others that are sometimes used are down today.  This is needed for
the tinderbox continuous test to complete (it trys to download and
rebuild postgres and odbc once a day).

Modified:
   trunk/iRODS/scripts/perl/installPostgres.pl

Modified: trunk/iRODS/scripts/perl/installPostgres.pl
==============================================================================
--- trunk/iRODS/scripts/perl/installPostgres.pl    Mon Dec  5 09:53:42 2011   
(r4624)
+++ trunk/iRODS/scripts/perl/installPostgres.pl    Mon Dec  5 14:20:48 2011   
(r4625)
@@ -343,9 +343,18 @@
 # Postgres FTP site access
 $POSTGRES_FTP_ACCOUNT_NAME     = "anonymous";
 $POSTGRES_FTP_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD = "anonymous@";
-$POSTGRES_FTP_POSTGRES_DIR     = "pub/PostgreSQL/source";
-$POSTGRES_FTP_ODBC_DIR         = "PostgreSQL/odbc/versions/src";
-$POSTGRES_FTP_HOST             = "ftp5.us.postgresql.org";
+#
+# Use to use ftp5 or ftp10, but now (Dec 2011) am trying
+# ftp.postgresql.org as both the others were down; not sure
+# if that's just temporary tho.
+$POSTGRES_FTP_POSTGRES_DIR     = "pub/source";
+$POSTGRES_FTP_ODBC_DIR         = "pub/odbc/versions/src";
+$POSTGRES_FTP_HOST             = "ftp.postgresql.org";
+#
+#$POSTGRES_FTP_POSTGRES_DIR     = "pub/PostgreSQL/source";
+#$POSTGRES_FTP_ODBC_DIR         = "PostgreSQL/odbc/versions/src";
+#$POSTGRES_FTP_HOST             = "ftp5.us.postgresql.org";
+#
 #$POSTGRES_FTP_POSTGRES_DIR     = "pub/postgresql/source";
 #$POSTGRES_FTP_ODBC_DIR         = "postgresql/odbc/versions/src";
 #$POSTGRES_FTP_HOST             = "ftp10.us.postgresql.org";

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