Re: Is BTS down?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:23, LUK ShunTim <shuntim.luk@polyu.edu.hk> wrote:
> On 03/26/2011 11:28 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 15:41, LUK ShunTim <shuntim.luk@polyu.edu.hk> wrote:
>>> I've not been able to connect to BTS using reportbug and only got the
>>> "Unable to connect to Debian BTS" message. Is BTS down?
>>
>> I had similar problems minutes ago, but now it seems working.
>>
>> Regards,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I tried again just now; but no luck. Here's what I
> got.
>
> "$ reportbug linux-image-2.6.38-1-amd64
> ...
> Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)...
> Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]?"
>
> Using a longer timeout option such as --timeout=300 doesn't help.
>
> On the other hand,
>
> "$ reportbug reportbug
> ...
> Querying Debian BTS for reports on reportbug (source)...
> 151 bug reports found:
> ..."
>
> Don't know if it's related to one particular package (linux-2.6) or the
> BTS itself. I found a similar past bug report #571955 and also the fix
> which introduced the --timeout option.
I think it's related to the package 'linux-2.6' that has *a lot* of
bug reports, and so the information takes a lot to be loaded; if it
works for reportbug, it should work with linux-2.6 too, just increase
the timeout (are you on a slow line?).
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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