Hi Greg,
We had some occasions where we'd try to install a tool from the toolshed, and it would hang - it appeared that the hg pull was timing out.
Was the timeout a regular occurrence? if so, do you know that cause, and were you able to get it resolved?
It was repeated, but after a few tries the install would succeed without me really 'resolving' the issue. We haven't run into the issue in a while and I honestly have no idea if this is due to a galaxy upgrade or if we had a temporary run of bad luck with those particular tools.
The October 5, 2012 Galaxy distribution news brief includes the following link to information about the process for handling repository installation errors, specifically when the errors occur during cloning.
http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/InstallingRepositoriesToGalaxy#Handling_repository...
If you're running an older version of Galaxy, you'll need to update to the October 5 release in order to have these features.
The news brief release information is:
upgrade: $ hg pull -u -r b5bda7a5c345
Let me know if this is not what you're looking for.
Thanks again, this is great. I think we have upgraded past that point now. Clare -- Clare Sloggett Research Fellow / Bioinformatician Life Sciences Computation Centre Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia Ph: 03 903 53357 M: 0414 854 759