OK, here is more data to chew on. I managed to run the binary script without the system lockup - this is the result:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 391, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1170, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1145, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>
If I try to run the source install I get this:
--2010-12-21 14:05:59--
http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src
Resolving status.calibre-ebook.com... 1.0.0.0
Connecting to status.calibre-ebook.com|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
--2010-12-21 14:06:21-- (try: 2)
http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src
Connecting to status.calibre-ebook.com|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
--2010-12-21 14:06:44-- (try: 3)
http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src
Connecting to status.calibre-ebook.com|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
And so it goes on until the end of time...In fact, basically, the installation scripts are failing in the same way as the recipes - is this interesting or informative at all? Is it something to do with Python? Surely it's using the same method of accessing the net as any other app?