emerge sync does nothing

greg32 · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:03 am Post subject: emerge sync does nothing

an emerge sync results in this:

>>> starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.74/gentoo-portage...
>>> checking server timestamp ...
rsync: failed to connect to 134.68.220.74: Connection timed out
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(8

>>> retry ...

Has been like this for a couple of days. I have not changed anything that I can think of. All other net related stuff works, just not emerge sync. I can emerge packages, and they download, so I am buggered if I can work it out - any ideas??

Cheers
Greg
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dhurt · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:27 am Post subject:

Does this happen with all rsync servers? Have you tried rsyncing with one of the main mirrors like:

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

or

rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
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greg32 · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:03 am Post subject:

Hey dhurt,
I can't say I know how to get it to sync from a specified server. Can you tell me how please?

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kallamej · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:10 am Post subject:

You define the SYNC variable in /etc/make.conf appropriately. See /etc/make.conf.example if you don't have that variable defined in /etc/make.conf already.
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dhurt · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:31 am Post subject:

Those entries are taken directly from make.conf SYNC entry. So let me know if they work. Since you are from australia, you might want to try this one:

nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 617

happens with main rsync server too.

I am getting this error

dhurt · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:26 am Post subject:

From the #gentoo-dev IRC:

greg32 · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject:

O.K., I set my local mirrors to the australian ones, and it still is a no go. I don't really know what to do from here. I use guarddog for my firewall, I diasabled this for a minute to try and I still had no success. So I don't think it is a firewall problem. sync uses ftp doesn't it? I have this allowed in my firewall config.
I emerged portage again, and this made no difference. Is the sync feature built into the portage package, or is it a separate package?
How would I go about definately checking that it is not getting blocked somewhere by a firewall or something?? Is there a command I can run to give me info on what ports are open, and which are blocked? If so, what ports does emerge need open to sync?
That error I get when the sync fails, does it mean it has contacted that server, and failed, or is this an internal failure?

Any other suggestions please.

Cheers Greg
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kallamej · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject:

The sync uses rsync, which is port 873. From your error it seems like your packets does not reach the server or that the server does not respond. Just for sanity, please post the output of

greg32 · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject:

here is emerge info for you: cheers

beast root # emerge --info
Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.24-xfs-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.24-xfs-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib accessibility alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo breakme cdr crypt cups dvb dvd encode esd evo exif foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oav oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"

beast root #
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kallamej · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:48 am Post subject:

Try emerge-webrsync, that should fetch the most recent snapshot from your download mirror. Then try to open all outgoing traffic in your firewall and run emerge sync again. If you have ethereal or some other network analyser you could use that to see if traffic leaves and/or reaches your box.
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nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 617

nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 617

And here is MY emerge --info

kallamej · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject:

Emerge-webrsync downloads a portage snapshot from your download mirror using http instead of rsync. If you're behind a firewall that doesn't allow rsync traffic, this is what you have to do to update your portage tree. Your tree will then be slightly outdated, but still better than not synced at all.

Your emerge --info seems OK to me. Do you manage to see what files, or how many that couldn't be transferred? You may have a file system problem.
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nsahoo · l33t Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 617

i am banned from the servers for the day .. attempting too many times

I'll do a reiserfsck -c for file system problem and let u know.

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