script hangs at "checking major 3rd party components"

[ieffedmybffjill]

the issue could very well be on my end, however I am using a fresh intall of ubuntu minimal 14.04.1.

upon running rtinst, it hangs at the xmlrpc-c check. here is terminal output:

user@server:~# rtinst
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

Checking the web sites we will need are accessible
Checking Ubuntu mirrors
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu: OK
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu: OK
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu: OK

Checking major 3rd party components
Rtorrent: OK
xmlrpc-c: 

it's odd because the pages referenced by xmlrpc_url and xmlrpc_url_alt both seem to resolve for me.

i also noticed there's some error messages to display if the urls don't resolve, but the script doesn't seem to get that far.

i git cloned the repo and changed the xmlrpc-c URL to the one referenced in commit #29a3ad9 but that didn't seem to fix it. i'm not actually sure what else i could try but i'm gonna play with it some more.

[ieffedmybffjill]

line #293 and #295 of /scripts/rtinst reference xmlrpc_repo=1 but this doesn't seem to be set, looks like it belongs at line #278. i added this, i alo switched xmlrpc_url and xmlrpc_alt because maybe there was a resolving error there? and i added a failure message similar to the other checks, but the script still hangs for me.

my guess is that the check_url function is returning some unexpected error, possibly related to SSL / HTTPS certificate?

either way, rtinst seems to get stuck in a loop without triggering a failure message.

# check required web repos are accessible
os_repo=0
major_repo=0
xmlrpc_repo=0

sed  -i "s/\/debian\s/\/debian\/ /g" /etc/apt/sources.list

echo
echo "Checking the web sites we will need are accessible"
echo  "Checking $osname mirrors"
for i in $(cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep "^deb http" | cut -d' ' -f2 | uniq ); do
  echo -n $i": "
  check_url $i && echo "OK" || { echo "FAIL"; os_repo=1; }
done

echo
echo "Checking major 3rd party components"
echo -n "Rtorrent: "; check_url $rt_url && echo "OK" || { echo "FAIL"; major_repo=1; }

echo -n "xmlrpc-c: "; check_url $xmlrpc_url && echo "OK" || { echo "FAIL1"; xmlrpc_repo=1; }

if [[ $xmlrpc_repo = 1 ]]; then
  xmlrpc_url=$xmlrpc_url_alt
  check_url $xmlrpc_url && echo "OK" || { echo "FAIL2"; major_repo=1; }
fi

[lowprofileusername]

Same here. hang at xmlrpc-c:
any solutions?

[V33m]

Is this issue still present? If so, please add the following to rtinst script after #!/usr/bin/env bash on the top:

set -e -x

And remember to make the script executable again with:

sudo chmod +x /etc/rtinst/scripts/rtinst

Re-run the script and post the whole output.