Never-mind. It turned out to be a firewall setting on my router. Outbound port 873 was being blocked. Once enabled, selfupdate is working.
Of course, that doesn't explain why my e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing. On Jan 7, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 1/7/07, Chris Pragman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fink has been working well for me for a long time. >> >> A couple of days ago, selfupdate began to fail as follows. >> >> >> fink selfupdate >> Password: >> rsync -az -v rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP / >> sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp >> rsync: failed to connect to master.us.finkmirrors.net: Operation >> timed out (60) >> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ >> rsync-24/rsync/clientserver.c(94) >> ### execution of rsync failed, exit code 10 >> Failed to fetch the timestamp file from the rsync server: rsync:// >> master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/. Check the error messages above. >> >> (1) Give up >> (2) Retry the same mirror >> (3) Retry another mirror from your country >> (4) Retry another mirror >> >> How do you want to proceed? [3] >> >> >> >>> > > Someone else reported the same error recently. They wound up > installing fink's rsync package to get around it. > > We'll investigate this. > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > (akh) > Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
