Emerge sync problems (servers resolving to 127.0.0.1 et al)

staze · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 21

true... either way, at least they were nice enough to keep the TTL nice and low. :-)

It could be 86400... then we'd have to wait a day. ;-)

Or like comcast used to do, keep it at 604800 (7 days). So when they screw up your entry in the reverse DNS tables, it still takes a week to get propagate. Gar...

-Staze

Peregrine · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 67

The key is how many people are trying to access the rsync mirrors at the moment - if there is a lot of load, then it may be easier to remove the load, fix the issue, and then allow the connections again. DNS with a low TTL is faster than trying to go to each server, get it repaired, and bring it back up again. Of course, this is all guesswork on my part, but if so I can understand the logic .. of course I could also be completely wrong

kitano · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:10 am Post subject:

hmmm, all we can do is wait.
wait for an announcement.
wait for the mirrors.
wait for the dns-servers.

we can put that on the list of things you have to wait for your whole life:
elevators, trains, traffic lights, colleagues, internet-connections etc etc

what was that, a total of 20 percent of your life that's spent waiting for something?
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kitano · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:11 am Post subject:

staze · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 21

what this would also do would be keep the mirror rsync servers from trying to sync against the server they are fixing. They will sync against themselves, also resolving the load and creating weird errors if they're restoring from backup.

Once they have the master rsync server back up, they change the dns record back, and the mirrors can then resync.

-Staze

Peregrine · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 67

The announcement of the issue is now up on the gentoo homepage - www.gentoo.org

staze · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 21

guess that answers that question... guess I'll wait until later today to do some system work.

Take it easy everyone... I'm going to get some shuteye.

-Staze

dh3rm3 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 101

Announcement has been made http://www.gentoo.org/

kitano · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:18 am Post subject:

i guess they really are into trouble right now.
it's the core of the system that makes gentoo unique which is down.

hell, i imagine an ant population, admins running around looking for a solution. *g*
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Crashed_Again · n00b Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 45

Well I hope they just don't reectify the situation and not tell us what it was. I bet they will though. I hope its not another hack attempt. I can't listen to anymore Microsoft propaganda about how Linux is not secure. This would just add more fuel to the fire.

pilla · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:31 am Post subject:

Me too.

Sticking this.
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theine · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 7

I had the same problem as you guys but it just started working again

theine · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 7

There seems to have been a bug in portage too.

`emerge -uDp world` just downgraded

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

theine · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 7

no no, it worked, I just wanted to point out that there seems to be a problem with the newer versions of these packages. Thus they have been removed from the portage tree for now.

Commodore · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 2

Guess I picked a bad time to install gentoo on a new box =(
Is there any way to change my box to use a differnt rsync server?

I guess I can just download a snapshot

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20040112.tar.bz2

jan 12 close enough for me

tobechar · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Canada

This could simply be the result of Skynet beginning to take over...
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Rasputin · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject:

Help!
#emerge sync
>>> starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: name or servise not known
rsync error; error in socet IO (code 10) at clientserver.c (83)
....

What is it :?:

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_Nomad_ · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 571

Just an obeservation.
Everything seems to run smooth when removing /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk file before each sync
At least on the swedish mirror

jonfr · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1008 Location: Denmark

i get this error..

jasonou · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 87

I'm not sure, but i think this is on the server side b/c the online package database doesn't work either...when i try to search for a package, nothing comes up.

tobechar · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Canada

rsync just started working for me again:)

rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage

:lol:

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micron · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

I've the same problem and I'm still unable to rsync

And here's another "funny" thing: on the machine where I try to do