[GRASS-user] g.extension and spotty access to svn.osgeo.org

Hello,

I'm trying to use g.extension to install some add-ons (one of which I recently contributed), but the download fails at some times/on some machines. Just today, I was able to download a particular extension on my Mac, but not on my Linux machine, though bother machines are on the same network. Yesterday, I was unable to download the same extension on my Mac. Here is a typical error:

GRASS 6.4.2 (default):~ > g.extension -u extension=r.findtheriver

Fetching <r.findtheriver> from GRASS-Addons SVN (be patient)...
svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons/grass6/raster/r.findtheriver’: could not connect to server (http://svn.osgeo.org)
ERROR: GRASS Add-on r.findtheriver not found in repository or no network
       connection or another problem
GRASS 6.4.2 (default):~ >

I also frequently experience long delays loading the GRASS homepage (http://grass.osgeo.org) in a web browser.

Has anyone else experienced network connectivity problems to machines on the osgeo.org domain?

Thanks,

Brian

Brian wrote:

I'm trying to use g.extension to install some add-ons (one
of which I recently contributed), but the download fails at
some times/on some machines. Just today, I was able to
download a particular extension on my Mac,

so g.extension was working for you? is it GRASS 6.4.2? we've
been looking for feedback on that; which way of calling
g.extension? from the Terminal command line or from the wxGUI
menu? see https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/854

... Here is a typical error:
...
> Fetching <r.findtheriver> from GRASS-Addons SVN (be patient)...
> svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons/grass6/raster/r.findtheriver’:
> could not connect to server (http://svn.osgeo.org)
> ERROR: GRASS Add-on r.findtheriver not found in
repository or no network connection or another problem

Hi, yes it was a known problem yesterday with the server,
MarkusN restarted Apache, hopefully it helps. If not we may
need to reboot it.

I also frequently experience long delays loading the GRASS
homepage (http://grass.osgeo.org) in a web browser.
Has anyone else experienced network connectivity problems to
machines on the osgeo.org domain?

Unfortunately the osgeo servers are a little bit streched
these days, a victim of their own sucess. For me 0700 GMT +/-
1 hour is often bad, so if it is slow then I just go do
something else for a while and try again later.

Yesterday was unusual though, I have for the first time seen
temporary "unable to connect to server" in the last week or
two, but usually it isn't that bad.

regards,
Hamish

On May 22, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:

Brian wrote:

I'm trying to use g.extension to install some add-ons (one
of which I recently contributed), but the download fails at
some times/on some machines. Just today, I was able to
download a particular extension on my Mac,

so g.extension was working for you? is it GRASS 6.4.2? we've
been looking for feedback on that; which way of calling
g.extension? from the Terminal command line or from the wxGUI
menu? see https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/854

Well it worked in that it could download the code from SVN. The compile fails utterly on OS X, similar to the problems described in the ticket.

... Here is a typical error:
...

Fetching <r.findtheriver> from GRASS-Addons SVN (be patient)...
svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons/grass6/raster/r.findtheriver’:
could not connect to server (http://svn.osgeo.org)
ERROR: GRASS Add-on r.findtheriver not found in

repository or no network connection or another problem

Hi, yes it was a known problem yesterday with the server,
MarkusN restarted Apache, hopefully it helps. If not we may
need to reboot it.

I continue to have this problem today.

I also frequently experience long delays loading the GRASS
homepage (http://grass.osgeo.org) in a web browser.
Has anyone else experienced network connectivity problems to
machines on the osgeo.org domain?

Unfortunately the osgeo servers are a little bit streched
these days, a victim of their own sucess. For me 0700 GMT +/-
1 hour is often bad, so if it is slow then I just go do
something else for a while and try again later.

Yesterday was unusual though, I have for the first time seen
temporary "unable to connect to server" in the last week or
two, but usually it isn't that bad.

Good to know.

Thanks,

Brian

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Brian Miles <selimnairb@gmail.com> wrote:

On May 22, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:

Brian wrote:

I'm trying to use g.extension to install some add-ons (one
of which I recently contributed), but the download fails at
some times/on some machines. Just today, I was able to
download a particular extension on my Mac,

so g.extension was working for you? is it GRASS 6.4.2? we've
been looking for feedback on that; which way of calling
g.extension? from the Terminal command line or from the wxGUI
menu? see https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/854

Well it worked in that it could download the code from SVN. The compile fails utterly on OS X, similar to the problems described in the ticket.

... Here is a typical error:
...

Fetching <r.findtheriver> from GRASS-Addons SVN (be patient)...
svn: OPTIONS of 'http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons/grass6/raster/r.findtheriver’:
could not connect to server (http://svn.osgeo.org)
ERROR: GRASS Add-on r.findtheriver not found in

repository or no network connection or another problem

Hi, yes it was a known problem yesterday with the server,
MarkusN restarted Apache, hopefully it helps. If not we may
need to reboot it.

I continue to have this problem today.

I am part of the OSGeo SAC team
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Primary_Administrators

but hesitate to reboot the machine without agreement since many
projects are hosted there.

In any case, the trac health status can be seen here:
http://webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org/munin/osgeo.org/trac.osgeo.org.html

The GRASS/GDAL/OpenLayers/... server health is here:
http://webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org/munin/osgeo.org/projects.osgeo.org.html#Apache

Average Web accesses: 36.22/second = 3 million access per DAY.
Quite some traffic with 7 million/day as peak.

Recently some machines have to be under attack from spam farms
as well. We need to understand what happens there.

I'll try to investigate more,

Markus