chicken-install fails with TCP connect timeout

[Ivan Raikov]

The TCP connect timeout error is back! I cannot install nemo under either Linux or Mac OS X. Any help is appreciated.

/bin/chicken/bin/chicken-install nemo
resolving alias `kitten-technologies' to: http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/henrietta.cgi
retrieving ...
connecting to host "chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk", port 80 ...
requesting "/henrietta.cgi?name=nemo&mode=default" ...
reading response ...
TCP connect timeout
resolving alias `call-cc.org' to: http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/henrietta.cgi
connecting to host "code.call-cc.org", port 80 ...
requesting "/cgi-bin/henrietta.cgi?name=nemo&mode=default" ...
reading response ...
TCP connect timeout

[felix winkelmann]

Is this system-specific, or does it happen always?

Please try to unapply the commit r14101 and check wether it has any influence.

[Ivan Raikov]

The problem occurs on several identically configured Debian Linux systems with slightly different kernel versions, ranging from 2.6.24 to 2.6.26. Patch r14101 seems to have no influence. I have tried both Chicken 4.0.0, which does not include the patch, and 4.0.1, which does, but I get this error in both cases.

Replying to felix:

Is this system-specific, or does it happen always?

Please try to unapply the commit r14101 and check wether it has any influence.

[felix winkelmann]

Replying to iraikov:

The problem occurs on several identically configured Debian Linux systems with slightly different kernel versions, ranging from 2.6.24 to 2.6.26. Patch r14101 seems to have no influence. I have tried both Chicken 4.0.0, which does not include the patch, and 4.0.1, which does, but I get this error in both cases.

Replying to felix:

Is this system-specific, or does it happen always?

Please try to unapply the commit r14101 and check wether it has any influence.

If you comment the call to (close-output-port out) out does increasing the TCP timeout help? Is this a particularly slow connection?

[Ivan Raikov]

Increasing the tcp-read-timeout to 20000 (20 seconds) allows the installation of sxml-transforms to proceed without problems. The connection is indeed somewhat slow.

Replying to felix:

If you comment the call to (close-output-port out) out does increasing the TCP
timeout help? Is this a particularly slow connection?

[felix winkelmann]

Please try r14397. I increased the read/write timeout to 20 secs and close both in- and output ports together at the end.

If this works you can close the ticket.

[Ivan Raikov]

It seems to be working now.