www.winkde.org outage

Tue Mar 19 14:19:07 UTC 2013

Ralf,

Thanks for the quick response to the comment I added to KDE bug 316204
and the proposed workaround.

I'm in the eastern US and tried the installer link last night about 2
hours after receiving your reply.  It was invalid.  The installer
directory was visible on the SF site, but could not be accessed. 
Perhaps the changes you made had not propagated through the entire SF
system yet.  Being familiar with SF URL formats, I tried the following:

http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/kde-windows/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-0.9.9-8.exe

It worked and I was able to download the 32-bit installer.

Following up on my bug comment, this new file is the same size as the
one I retrieved previously via FTP from www.winkde.org, but is not a
binary equivalent.  So it does seem like the file is corrupt on the
other server(s), or those server(s) is/are corrupting the file upon
download.

I created a directory "C:\kdewin" for downloading, created the file
mirrors-remote.lst in that directory, and ran the installer.  I chose
"download only".  It asked for an installation directory and suggested
"C:\ProgramData\KDE" (running W7).  This seemed to me like an odd place
to store executables, so I changed it to "C:\Program Files\KDE".  I
chose "End User" and "MSVC" for install mode.  I entered "C:\kdewin" as
the download path.  The installer then displayed an error "failed to
download site list page from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/".

Here is the kdewin-installer.log content:

[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 189
Downloading "http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/"  to
memory
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 225
Downloader(0x209c508) Downloader::fetchInternal url: 
"http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/"
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 298
Downloader(0x209c508) Downloader::threadFinished
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 286
Downloader::fetchInternal ret:  true
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\installerupdate.cpp 140 no
update found
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111 "perl"
"Installer\Products\0052C8C86573FFC4C8DA8E043AA6BA48" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111 "psdk-msvc"
"Installer\Products\E10DE0A981DFA754BAC98053CDBD71BB" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111
"tortoisesvn" "Installer\Products\059ABB4F0F655334D839EE46FB5F390A" not
found.
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111
"vcexpress-en-msvc"
"Installer\Products\9BA4F6BA58CA200489926BEE5AA53E5A" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111 "vcredist"
"Installer\Products\b25099274a207264182f8181add555d0" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:13:12] Debug: called
[2013-03-19 09:13:17] Debug: called
[2013-03-19 09:19:47] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111 "perl"
"Installer\Products\0052C8C86573FFC4C8DA8E043AA6BA48" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:19:47] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111 "psdk-msvc"
"Installer\Products\E10DE0A981DFA754BAC98053CDBD71BB" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:19:47] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111
"tortoisesvn" "Installer\Products\059ABB4F0F655334D839EE46FB5F390A" not
found.
[2013-03-19 09:19:47] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111
"vcexpress-en-msvc"
"Installer\Products\9BA4F6BA58CA200489926BEE5AA53E5A" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:19:47] Debug: static\shared\database.cpp 111 "vcredist"
"Installer\Products\b25099274a207264182f8181add555d0" not found.
[2013-03-19 09:19:47] Debug: called
[2013-03-19 09:21:01] Debug: called
[2013-03-19 09:22:42] Debug: static\shared\globalconfig.cpp 79 Check if
a copy of the remote config file is available at
"C:/kdewin/config-remote.txt" ... not found
[2013-03-19 09:22:42] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 167
Downloading "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/config.txt" 
to  "C:/kdewin/config.txt.part.Hp2412"
[2013-03-19 09:22:42] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 225
Downloader(0x209c508) Downloader::fetchInternal url: 
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/config.txt"
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 298
Downloader(0x209c508) Downloader::threadFinished
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 286
Downloader::fetchInternal ret:  true
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\globalconfig.cpp 88 download
remote config file from  QUrl(
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/config.txt" )  to
"C:/kdewin/config.txt" ... okay
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\globalconfig.cpp 96 Check if
a local config file is available at "C:/kdewin/config-local.txt" ... not
found
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\globalconfig.cpp 101 using
config file(s) ("C:/kdewin/config.txt")
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\globalconfig.cpp 219
QDateTime("Fri Sep 2 00:00:00 2011")
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Warning: static\shared\globalconfig.cpp 562
unknown tag in config file ("@hash-typ", "md5")
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\installerengine.cpp 293
globalconfig has timestamp "2011-09-02 00:00:00"
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\installerengine.cpp 322
download package file list for site:  "all" from  QUrl(
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/" ) 
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\installerengine.cpp 335 
QUrl( "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/" ) 
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 189
Downloading "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/"  to memory
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 225
Downloader(0x209c508) Downloader::fetchInternal url: 
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kde-windows/"
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 298
Downloader(0x209c508) Downloader::threadFinished
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Critical: static\shared\downloader.cpp 373 HTTP
response code said error
[2013-03-19 09:22:43] Debug: static\shared\downloader.cpp 286
Downloader::fetchInternal ret:  false

Looks like prerequisite software is missing, although the installer did
not tell me that through the GUI.  Also looks like the config.txt file
may have an invalid entry in it, and that the installer tried to
download another file using an invalid URL (file name is missing).

Based on what I'm seeing, I'm going to give up on this.  All I wanted to
do was install the Kate text editor on Windows.  I'm a developer, so the
idea of building software doesn't bother me, but in this case I'm just
an end-user who wants an installer that provides a runnable Windows
application.

Thanks again for your efforts.

Regards,
Jeff

On 03/19/2013 06:02 AM, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as some people already noticed, the www.winkde.org server is currently
> broken because of a hardware failure.
>
> Until the server is up, the following workaround could be used for KDE
> on Windows Software installations.
>
> 1. download the installer from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-windows/files/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-0.9.9-8.exe/download
>
>
> 2. create a download directory and add a file named
> 'mirrors-remote.lst' with the following content:
> http de http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/kde
>
>  3. Start installer, unselect 'skip settings' checkbox if visible, set
> the directory created in 2. as download directory.
>
> Now you should be able to install KDE at least from ftp5.gwdg.de
>
> Regards
> Ralf
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