Emerge sync problems (servers resolving to 127.0.0.1 et al)

Koala Kid · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 382

same here... emerge-webrsync wasn't very helpful :cry:

casper · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject:

emerge sync works great now, doesn't it (at least for me it does)? If so, why still trying to use webrsync?
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Koala Kid · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 382

yep, works now

/me is happy

maxmc · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:58 am Post subject:

Because I get THIS all the time:

kallamej · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

Have you tried to delete the entire portage tree?
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maxmc · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't dare

should I delete the dev-perl things that is causing the trouble or just everything?

but how do I get it back then?

UPDATE:

Ok that seemed to work... but it's still strange why it didn't before..

kallamej · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:30 pm Post subject:

Is your hd crapping up on you?
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Mister Bill · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:35 am Post subject:

OK, my problem might be involved with this.

Many packages are just outright not showing up (Either 404 or "No Such File"), on many mirrors. I can rsync, and it seems to go through the process right, but when I try to emerge system I get many broken links.
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maxmc · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:52 am Post subject:

Target · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 200

Either Maxtor or Western Digital. They have a 3-year warranty on their OEM SATA drives, so they must expect them to be reliable. WD even sells SCSI-style 10k RPM, low-capacity, high-cost, 5yr warranty SATA drives.
(Seagate got left in the dust; looks like they assumed everyone else would keep the 1yr warranty from the ATA lines)

Bill: Try mirrorselect. Also make sure you don't have an empty MIRRORS line in your make.conf, otherwise emerge will give up prematurely on a 404.

dubiboy · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Israel

I have the same problem, with
emerge sync
freezing randomly somewhere in the
"receiving file list" stage.

If I run tcpdump -i eth0 in another terminal, I notice that at the
point emerge freezes, the last two lines dumped by tcpdump read
something like:

17:23:04.024180 arp who-has 192.168.1.1 tell wendeXP1700
17:23:04.024388 arp reply 192.168.1.1 is at 0.30.54.91.4b.80

where 192.168.1.1 is the address of my router,
wendeXP1700 is my hostname
and I assume 0.30.54.91.4b.80 is the MAC.

Hopefully the above will help some guru out there to solve this
problem.

David

zeek · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject: Old Dead News

Why is this thread still sticky?

CHAOSACES · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 66

Mid-March now, and portage just crapped out on me. Only for a span of 15 minutes though. I'm guessing they just did a big overhaul, because the sync is running a big file list. A BIG list, 65115 out of 78582 files transferred. Maybe that has something to do with the emerge-webrsync I did.
I also got a wierd emerge -up world in the interim, as well. Calculating deps took about 5 mins, and when finished it listed every entry in my world file before showing what could be upgraded.

Evangelion · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:24 am Post subject:

I was installing my server (doing "emerge -u world" after the actual installation) when I started having problems. I noticed that the emerge had stopped (not finding some files it wanted to fetch etc.), so I resumed the emerge. It then complained about not being able to remove some files due to lack of permissions. I searched the forums and noticed that that symptom is related to faulty HD. That was a real possibility, it was an old HD. So I moved the entire installation to a new HD (this HD used to hold my Debian-installation, but it had been unused for 6 months. As far as I know, the HD had no errors in it), but emerge still complains about not being able to delete some files due to lack of permissions. IIRC some of the files it complains about are same ones it complained about in the old HD.

Now, is the "new" HD also busted (unlikely) or is this just something carried over from the old HD?

I'm not at my machine right now, so I can't post detailed error-messages. But I may be able to do that later today.
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CHAOSACES · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 66

This might sound like a dumb question, but are you using emerge as root, or have you added your user account to the portage group?

tomk · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Old Dead News

GroennDemon · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject:

Same problem here again.

sugarshark · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

GroennDemon · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject:

Worked after emerge-webrsync

martinbishop · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 66

It's happening again, anyone know WHY this happens every now and again?
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uberuser · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Canada

yeah, I've been having this problem for a few days now too.

el_compa · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 65 Location: France

Hi all,

I've been experiencing the same problems, I solved it by downgrading to rsync-2.6.0-r4
and adding:

rootsxploit · n00b Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 2

When I had this problem i had the timestamp error with emerge sync, but with my situtation I couldn't get emerge-webrsync to work. This was because my firewalls weren't configured. rsync uses port 873-TCP (sometimes UDP too). Hope it helps.

juggaloskater · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 3

I'm having the same problem with timecheck that you guys were having but I don't think it's server related this time as no one else has been posting about it.
receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/metadata/timestamp.chk" (in gentoo) failed: No such file or directory (2)
done

Number of files: 0
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 0 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 5
Total bytes sent: 47
Total bytes received: 9

sent 47 bytes received 9 bytes 16.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1298) [receiver=2.6.8]

I tried deleting the file like someone suggested, and also tried installing the updated masked packages for both portage and rsync but nothing seems to work. I've also tried a lot of different rsync servers and they all have the same error. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.