diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/mirror.py b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/mirror.py
index 098b1c3bf8ec275f0670751fb7168069edebe06c..91fe38fe677cc1e15398d76143145e852d34d25b 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/mirror.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/mirror.py
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ def mirror(parser, args):
                 shutil.move(stage.archive_file, final_dst)
                 tty.msg("Added %s to mirror" % final_dst)
 
+            except Exception, e:
+                 tty.warn("Error while fetching %s.  Skipping." % url, e.message)
+
             finally:
                 stage.destroy()
 
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/globals.py b/lib/spack/spack/globals.py
index 990a2ff417d389c3efd66d8963f033b61e9e0e65..2cf2761362105d7f9e91a021f13cc51a16d71084 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/globals.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/globals.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 # For no mirrors:
 #   mirrors = []
 #
-mirrors = ['file:///Users/gamblin2/mirror']
+mirrors = []
 
 # Important environment variables
 SPACK_NO_PARALLEL_MAKE = 'SPACK_NO_PARALLEL_MAKE'
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/packages/mrnet.py b/lib/spack/spack/packages/mrnet.py
index 0fcbe68ee3ae824422f2a3d69b598e17e3bd373d..15d851f83e0b61e46c96efed15ad7dfad2db58ab 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/packages/mrnet.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/packages/mrnet.py
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ class Mrnet(Package):
     url      = "ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/mrnet/mrnet_4.0.0.tar.gz"
 
     versions = { '4.0.0' : 'd00301c078cba57ef68613be32ceea2f', }
+    parallel = False
 
     def install(self, spec, prefix):
         configure("--prefix=%s" %prefix, "--enable-shared")
 
-        make(parallel=False)
-        make("install", parallel=False)
+        make()
+        make("install")
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/packages/pmgr_collective.py b/lib/spack/spack/packages/pmgr_collective.py
index a7e11304364eec492c3bbebcab454d345d062ecc..0874e2d17b74c708e84aa89775690461a36eb90b 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/packages/pmgr_collective.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/packages/pmgr_collective.py
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ class PmgrCollective(Package):
        MPI jobs."""
     homepage = "http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pmgrcollective"
     url      = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pmgrcollective/pmgrcollective/PMGR_COLLECTIVE-1.0/pmgr_collective-1.0.tgz"
-#    url      = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pmgrcollective/pmgrcollective/PMGR_COLLECTIVE-1.0/pmgr_collective-1.0.tgz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fpmgrcollective%2F%3Fsource%3Ddlp&ts=1394747864&use_mirror=iweb
 
     versions = { '1.0' : '0384d008774274cc3fc7b4d810dfd07e' }
 
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/packages/stat.py b/lib/spack/spack/packages/stat.py
index 8d9d9f406a09de3166e44ffb9816748714cab4b0..d621bcef017881f92baf1253411e1d3e109e055f 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/packages/stat.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/packages/stat.py
@@ -14,21 +14,26 @@ class Stat(Package):
     depends_on('mrnet')
 
     def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        my_mrnet = spec['mrnet']
-        my_graphlib = spec['graphlib']
-        #my_launchmon = spec['launchmon']
-        my_dyninst = spec['dyninst']
-        my_libdwarf = spec['libdwarf']
+        configure(
+            "--enable-gui",
+            "--prefix=%s" % prefix,
 
-        # TODO: this uses the launchmon package, but path is too long (see depends_on above) (Jira SPACK-21)
-        #configure("--enable-gui", "--prefix=%s" %prefix, "--with-launchmon=%s" %my_launchmon.prefix, "--with-mrnet=%s" %my_mrnet.prefix, "--with-graphlib=%s" %my_graphlib.prefix, "--with-stackwalker=%s" %my_dyninst.prefix, "--with-libdwarf=%s" %my_libdwarf.prefix)
+            # TODO: this uses the launchmon package, but path is
+            # too long (see depends_on above) (Jira SPACK-21)
+            # "--with-launchmon=%s" % spec['launchmon'].prefix,
 
-        # TODO: the configure line above is the proper one once Jira SPACK-21 is fixed
-        configure("--enable-gui", "--prefix=%s" %prefix, "--with-launchmon=/collab/usr/global/tools/launchmon/chaos_5_x86_64_ib/launchmon-1.0.0-20140312", "--with-mrnet=%s" %my_mrnet.prefix, "--with-graphlib=%s" %my_graphlib.prefix, "--with-stackwalker=%s" %my_dyninst.prefix, "--with-libdwarf=%s" %my_libdwarf.prefix)
+            # TODO: launchmon line above is the proper one once
+            # SPACK-21 is fixed
+            "--with-launchmon=/collab/usr/global/tools/launchmon/chaos_5_x86_64_ib/launchmon-1.0.0-20140312",
 
-        # TODO: remove once Jira SPACK-19 is fixed
+            "--with-mrnet=%s" % spec['mrnet'].prefix,
+            "--with-graphlib=%s" % spec['graphlib'].prefix,
+            "--with-stackwalker=%s" % spec['dyninst'].prefix,
+            "--with-libdwarf=%s" % spec['libdwarf'].prefix)
+
+        # TODO: remove once SPACK-19 is fixed
         import shutil
         shutil.copy2('/usr/bin/libtool', 'libtool')
-    
+
         make(parallel=False)
         make("install")