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On 10/10/11 6:09 AM, Daniele Tartarini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have fink 0.31.0 both on a Mac OsX 10.5.8 and 10.6.8 and when i
> type "sudo fink selfupdate" i get this error:
> 

(don't use 'sudo' before 'fink')

> TIMEOUT: using default answer. rsync -az -v
> rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP / 
> sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp rsync: failed to connect to
> ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net: Operation timed out (60) rsync error:
> error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ 
> rsync-35.2/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9] ### execution
> of rsync failed, exit code 10 Failed to fetch the timestamp file
> from the rsync server: rsync:// 
> ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/.  Check the error messages
> above.
> 
> (1)   Give up (2)     Retry the same mirror (3)       Retry another mirror 
> from
> your continent (4)    Retry another mirror
> 
> Default answer will be chosen in 120 seconds... How do you want to
> proceed? [1] TIMEOUT: using default answer. No mirror worked. This
> seems unusual, please submit a short summary of this event to
> [email protected] Thank you
> 
> 
> how to overcome this issue?
> 
> thank you, Regards Danielta
> 

Do you have a firewall on your network?  Very often the port that
rsync uses is blocked.

The alternative in such cases, if you can't get port 873 opened (often
network administrators refuse to do that) is to try "fink selfupdate-cvs".
- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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