On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:23, LUK ShunTim <shuntim....@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....@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) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=6fdDNKDTPtfPjsjarQa974b=a9tut15v2e...@mail.gmail.com