problems cloning glib and mutter from Ghana

[Ben Konrath <ben bagu org>]

Hi everyone,

I'm following up a chat I had on IRC a couple of days ago. I'm
connecting from a faster connection now so I'm not seeing the problem
but I would still like to have this issue in the archives.

I'm in Ghana and I'm having problems cloning the glib and mutter git
repos. Here's what's happening:

-> When I run git 'clone git://git.gnome.org/mutter', it just hangs at
this stage:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ben/Desktop/mutter/.git/

-> Switching to a new terminal, I am able to checkout smaller modules
like caribou

-> Running 'mtr git.gnome.org' as root gives very minimal lost packets
(0.4% or less on some nodes)

Olav Vitters posted this error message from the server logs to the IRC chat:

<bkor> May 14 17:18:56 git xinetd[2003]: START: git pid=20892
from=::ffff:41.202.2.158
<bkor> May 14 17:18:56 git git-daemon[20892]: Connection from 41.202.2.158:60997
<bkor> May 14 17:18:56 git git-daemon[20892]: Extended attributes (20
bytes) exist <host=git.gnome.org>
<bkor> May 14 17:18:56 git git-daemon[20892]: Request upload-pack for '/glib'
<bkor> May 14 17:42:25 git git-daemon[20892]: fatal: read error:
Connection timed out
<bkor> May 14 17:42:25 git xinetd[2003]: EXIT: git status=128
pid=20892 duration=1409(sec)
<bkor> not sure if that is normal or not

The last time I had a problem was trying to clone mutter at around
22:00 - 00:00 UTC on Friday night. I was connecting from 41.202.2.157.
Could somebody check the logs to see if there are errors from that IP
around that time?

I'm also curious if git is known to not work well on slow connections.
Like I said, I'm now using a different and faster connection (I'm at a
different hotel) so I can't test things out with the other connection.
I'm going to try to clone mutter with my cellular modem later today to
see if that works.

I'm not on this list so please cc me.

Thanks, Ben