[Distutils] PyPI download issues from Rackspace Cloud

[Donald Stufft]

Can you try with 1.5rc1? We switched to requests in that version and
perhaps it side steps the issue?

On Nov 23, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> I recently spin up a Windows VM on Rackspace Cloud.  I'm seeing a very
> weird problem: downloads from PyPI fail with checksum errors,
> nondeterministically.
> 
> Sometimes it's a md5 hash mismatch error from pip[1].  Sometimes the
> error is a CRC error deep in the gzip module.  It's not only pip -- I've
> seen this error from virtualenv[2], I've seen it from get-pip.py.
> 
> [1] https://jenkins.gedmin.as/job/restview-on-windows/1/console
>    https://jenkins.gedmin.as/job/restview-on-windows/2/console
>    https://jenkins.gedmin.as/job/restview-on-windows/3/console
>    https://jenkins.gedmin.as/job/check-manifest-on-windows/11/console
> 
> [2] https://jenkins.gedmin.as/job/check-manifest-on-windows/7/console
>    https://jenkins.gedmin.as/job/check-manifest-on-windows/6/console
> 
> The error is sporadic and tends to go away (and come back) on retries
> (look at the restview-on-windows jobs: first pip install mock fails,
> then succeeds, then fails again on next retry).
> 
> I haven't encountered any download troubles with Firefox.  In fact
> that's how I got 'pip install tox' to work in the end -- pypi downloads
> of virtualenv/py libraries kept failing, so I downloaded the tarballs
> with Firefox and pip installed them from local files.
> 
> I've ran
> 
>  curl https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.10.1.tar.gz | md5sum -
> 
> like 10 times and got the same (correct) md5 hash each time.  Meanwhile
> 
>  unset PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE
>  rm -f virtualenv-1.10.1.tar.gz && pip install -d . virtualenv
> 
> fails with a bad md5hash error 9 times out of 10.  Curiously, it's the
> same bad hash every time: 20cf17baaf2126f99d6f652831f82d75.
> 
> I used http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/python-2.7.6.msi to
> install Python on this Windows 2012 server (64-bit OS, 32-bit Python).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Marius Gedminas
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