# Unable to connect to the server 2 messages from 2007-09-21 to 2007-09-25. Participants: Kaushalya Satharasinghe, Johannes Schindelin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10022 ## Kaushalya Satharasinghe, 2007-09-21 09:10 Subject: Unable to connect to the server Message-ID: <1190365837.5497.4.camel@localhost> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1190365837.5497.4.camel%40localhost ``` Hi, I want to checkout a git package. I installed git and when I give the command "/root/bin/git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git /home/Kaushalya/moreWork/git_test " I got the result as Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Kaushalya/moreWork/git_test/.git/ git.kernel.org[0: 140.211.167.38]: errno=Connection timed out fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out) fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git' failed. I can ping the 140.211.167.38. I am using Fedora Core 5 hosted through vmware 5.5. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks and regards, -- Kaushalya Satharasinghe Zone24x7 ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2007-09-25 23:51 Subject: Re: Unable to connect to the server Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0709260048370.28395%40racer.site In-Reply-To: <1190365837.5497.4.camel@localhost> ``` Hi, On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Kaushalya Satharasinghe wrote: > I want to checkout a git package. I installed git and when I give the > command > "/root/bin/git clone > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git /home/Kaushalya/moreWork/git_test > " > I got the result as > > Initialized empty Git repository > in /home/Kaushalya/moreWork/git_test/.git/ > git.kernel.org[0: 140.211.167.38]: errno=Connection timed out > fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out) > fetch-pack from > 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git' failed. > > I can ping the 140.211.167.38. I am using Fedora Core 5 hosted through > vmware 5.5. Can anyone help me out here? You're probably quite a few hops away from that machine. However, mmc.git is a fork of the kernel tree, so if you can get ahold of any other kernel repository (for example from repo.or.cz), you can easen the load by using the --reference option to git-clone. Hth, Dscho ```