Very long wait times downloading meteor-tools on update

[vruzha]

Stuck with "Downloading meteor-tool@1.3.4_4"
Any workarounds guys?

[GregS]

I’m trying to run the todos app from the Guide, and I’m stuck on “Downloading meteor-tool@1.3.4_4”. Similarly to others, the initial download completes, but then it hangs with the spinner. (the spinner does spin, but it never actually completes)

[gothicmage]

Make sure you have good internet connection.
Make sure your PC is not made out from wooden planks.

If these conditions are met its(sadly) normal for meteor-tools download(+spinner) to last 10 min.
If not, its normal(sadly) for meteor-tools download(+spinner) to last 60+ min.

Don’t even try to update through mobile internet. It hurts.

[GregS]

Well, I left it over night, and the damn thing has WORKED! I had previously left it for at least two hours - just perhaps, I did have a network problem on that occasion, or maybe I just didn’t leave it long enough. Thanks gothicimage.

[genzai]

thanks it worked for me

[gaio]

I’ve been waiting for Meteor to update for daaaaaaaaayz !?!

Updating Meteor for days?

I’m having trouble with a specific issue with updating Meteor, and I’m also wanting to get a more solid understanding of how Meteor updating works. I installed Meteor sometime last year. Recently, I was going thru the basic Meteor tutorial, and setting up a new Meteor app … then the downloading started “Downloading 66 packages” and went on for 2 days … and still kept going !?! meteor --version Meteor 1.2.1 So I guess when starting a new Meteor app if you are not updated is that it automati…

[allanesquina]

Hi guys, I’m running into this same issue here in Brazil, SP, when starting my application, the Meteor try to download the meteor-tool@1.3.4_4 but it always closes the connection in 60% - 80%, and then, I get the following error:

/home/loloud/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.4.1.186av8r++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/meteor-promise/promise_server.js:165
      throw error;
      ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/tmp/mt-1v1pxnc/os.json'

Any solution? I just can’t work because of that, and it’s really worrisome!

Thanks!

[tetiogit]

Same waiting issue for meteor-tool@1.4.1 here from congo… I start to dislike the meteor-thing…

[taken]

Same problem, stuck on spinner

[luncasu]

Manual installation on windows works for me (~147MB package):

meteor/docs/blob/version-NEXT/long-form/alternate-windows-installation.md

[brascene]

I have exactly the same issue, and have no idea what to do…

[brascene]

Anyone knows what is happening with meteor tool?
When I run my project, meteor starts with download of meteor-tool, and after some percentage of downloading is completed (>50%) it gives me this error:

/home/dino/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.4.1.186av8r++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/meteor-promise/promise_server.js:165
throw error;
^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/tmp/mt-1v1pxnc/os.json’

[willemx]

Same here.
Downloading meteor-tool@1.4.1_1… still spinning for 18 hours now (started yesterday)
I’m on OSX, in Europe (NL), high bandwidth fixed network connection.

[brucejo]

I found with build 1.4.1.1 a lot of update issues were fixed.

When I have encountered spinning in the past I have tried this:

1. meteor create test
2. cd test
3. meteor update (this removes dependencies on a lot of packages that can cause problems)
4. note: v1.4.1.1 is a patch so try meteor update --patch for that version.

Another thing to check is #7689, make sure there is no random tar.exe or 7z.exe on your path. also cited #67 and #7688.

And lastly, to compile binaries it is good to have node-gyp installed:

meteor npm install node-gyp -g

[babrahams]

Updating a few production apps to 1.4.1.1 and Mongo 3.2. It’s all going well except, every time I need to update a machine to 1.4.1.1, I’ve got an hour plus wait for the tool to download (if it downloads at all) and then the nervous minute or two after download to see whether it hangs indefinitely or installs and becomes usable.

EDIT: Must just be China. Downloaded the tool in less than a minute on a box in Argentina.

My question is …

Having successfully downloaded the tool once, is there a way to just ftp it (whatever it is that gets downloaded) to other machines and somehow be able to “register its presence” (as the 1.4.1.1 tool) on the next machine and use it there, rather than going through the epic download process each time?

[antoninadert]

Any idea? Because I have same problem here

[babrahams]

Eventually I updated all the machines and it all works. It was just a bit of a pain waiting for the downloads.

[toledoroy]

Solution:
In my case, the lag was caused by Windows Defender, which seems to go crazy over the update
Turning it off solved the problem

[sonicviz]

Testing out Meteor 1.5 with a project and immediately get the looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnng wait Downloading meteor-tool@1.5.0

I’m gobsmacked that after all this time MDG ignores such a pain point in developer UX.
It’s like they don’t actually want you to use the product.

[kletkeman]

Lol … I must be one of the first to update to 1.8.0.1 and it has hung for more than 15m so far … I have been planning on moving away from Meteor because everything takes way too much time, and this is just another brick in the wall …