also having trouble with stack

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I'm running $ stack build primality now , and getting the same very slow process that I got for $ stack new primality:

~/haskell $ stack new primality
Downloading template "new-template" to create project "primality" in primality/ ...

The following parameters were needed by the template but not provided: 
author-email, author-name, category, copyright, github-username
You can provide them in /home/john/.stack/config.yaml, like this:
templates:
  params:
    author-email: value
    author-name: value
    category: value
    copyright: value
    github-username: value
Or you can pass each one as parameters like this:
stack new primality new-template -p "author-email:value" -p "author-name:value" -p "category:value" 
-p "copyright:value" -p "github-username:value"

Looking for .cabal or package.yaml files to use to init the project.
Using cabal packages:
- primality/primality.cabal

Selecting the best among 10 snapshots...

Downloaded lts-8.16 build plan.    
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Selected mirror https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.fpcomplete.com/
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Downloading root    
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Selected mirror https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.fpcomplete.com/
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Downloading timestamp
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Downloading snapshot
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Downloading mirrors 
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Cannot update index (no local copy)
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.                                                                             Downloading index   
Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.fpcomplete.com/) ...recv: resource vanished (Connection reset by peer)