Xen users - Oct 2009 - Timeout when automatically getting linux 2.6.18 sources

Hi,

I am currently trying to (re)install Xen 3.5 unstable on a Debian lenny
machine. Although I never had troubles with that in the past, it seems that
the automatic download of linux 2.6.18 sources does not work this time.
I did not change anything to my method of installation, I just do the
necessary modifications for vTPM handling:

- VTPM_TOOLS ?= y *in Config.mk*

- BUILD_EMULATOR = n *in tools/vtpm/Rules.mk*

- dmi_type = VTPM_TYPE_MIGRATABLE *in tools/vtpm_manager/manager/dmictl.c*

- #define TPM_STRONG_PERSISTENCE *in tools /vtpm/vtpm/tpm/tpm_emulator.h*

Then I just perform a make dist, and here is what I get:

+ git clone
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.gitlinux-2.6-pvops.git.tmp

Initialized empty Git repository in
/usr/src/xen-unstable/linux-2.6-pvops.git.tmp/.git/
error: Connection time-out
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

+ cd linux-2.6-pvops.git.tmp
+ git checkout xen/master
error: pathspec ''xen/master'' did not match any file(s) known
to git.
make[2]: *** [linux-2.6-pvops.git/.valid-src] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xen-unstable''
make[1]: *** [linux-2.6-pvops-install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xen-unstable''
make: *** [install-kernels] Error 1


I don''t know much things about Git, but it seems that the problem comes
from
the repos, not from Git itself, right?

Here are some precisions about my running system:


   -  I am working behind a proxy. In order to have Git working, I use the
   following script :


#!/bin/sh

# chmod +x /bin/gitproxy
# git config --global core.gitproxy gitproxy

_proxy=myproxy
_proxyport=myport

exec socat STDIO PROXY:$_proxy:$1:$2,proxyport=$_proxyport


It used to work, so I guess the problem does not come from here, but just to
be sure I thought it could be useful to notice it.


   -  I can successfully access to the address indicated for the git clone (
   http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git)



Cobra:/home/nicolas# wget
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
--2009-10-20 11:53:00--
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
Resolving myproxy... 16.25.132.170, 15.25.0.20
Connecting to myproxy|16.25.132.170|:8088... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git/[following]
--2009-10-20 11:53:01--
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git/
Connecting to myproxy|16.25.132.170|:8088... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html''

    [ <=>                                   ] 1,320       --.-K/s   in
0s

2009-10-20 11:53:01 (180 MB/s) - `index.html'' saved [1320]


*So two questions I guess* :

- How can I solve my problem?

- If the problem is apparently unsolvable, can I just download 2.6.18
sources here (*http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg*) and have
the same result I would have with automatic download?


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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Nicolas Muñoz
<nicolas.munoz.zz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to (re)install Xen 3.5 unstable on a Debian lenny
> machine. Although I never had troubles with that in the past, it seems that
> the automatic download of linux 2.6.18 sources does not work this time.
3.5 unstable does not use 2.6.18 by default
> I did not change anything to my method of installation, I just do the
> necessary modifications for vTPM handling:
> + git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
> linux-2.6-pvops.git.tmp
exactly.
> error: Connection time-out
Probably network or server error.

You could probably do this to compile xen and userland only
- make xen
- make tools
- make install-xen
- make install-tools

... and then compile the kernel separately. Snapshot of Jeremy''s
kernel tree is also available from
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=summary

-- 
Fajar

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