broken portage tree- can't emerge sync

ajb128 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Moo-town USA

After hearing how great Gentoo is I decided to try it and got a fresh new install of Gentoo using a 1.4_rc3 live CD and the stage-3 tarball. The basic install went great, and I decided to I'd update the portage tree to get the newest apps and maybe upgrade my kernel. So I've been trying to do an emerge sync for the past 2 days, but it always fails in the middle:

rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(85)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (877340 bytes read so far)

I have a fast connection through my aparmtent building, but sometimes get a pretty bad lag. Maybe this is why it fails? I don't know.

So I read that I could download the latest portage tree as a tar file. I did this, and then accidentally overwrote my /usr/portage directory with the one extracted from the downloaded tar file! :twisted:

So now I have a portage tree with a bunch of files missing, i.e. when I try and emerge something I get an error:

/usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass: No such file or directory

I try and fix my portage tree by following the directions in /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE, problem one of the steps is to do an emerge rsync, which still does not work for me.

I decided before I mess things up any worse, I should ask some people who might now what they're doing.

So, how can I get an up to date portage tree? How can I get emerge rsync to work? Any advice at all would be awesome.

Thanks!

aj

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject:

You should be able to remove /usr/portage and issue a "emerge sync". This will download a complete /usr/portage tree.

Don't forget to check if /etc/make.profile is a symlink to the correct /usr/portage/profile/ subdirectory.

PT_LAmb · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 9:18 pm Post subject:

There is also emerge-webrsync, but it does no more then fetching the latest snapshot and updating the tree, which you have done manually.

If you want to automate that task, you must first emerge gentoolkit

Good luck,
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ajb128 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Moo-town USA

Thanks, the emerge-webrsync worked.

I'm still not sure why "emerge rsync" keeps failing. I tried to increase the timeout value, but it didn't help.

Bogo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 98

Yeah I started getting this problem too out of the blue. I can emerge things, but I can't rsync. The webrsync thing seemed to work though.
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PT_LAmb · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:55 pm Post subject:

ajb128, I have an ideia. I think that the problem maybe be caused by a bad Internet link, or a firewall.

You can test the first hypothesis by checking the ping times. Run:

ajb128 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Moo-town USA

I think the problem must be with my network connection and the rsync protocol. My network access is provided by my apartment through some sort of homePNA network. I usually get good speed (>30KB/sec) but will get loooong ping times every once in a while.

For instance, sometimes I attempt to load a web site that normally take ~1 second to load at it takes a minute or more.

I tried you command-

PT_LAmb · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 9:36 pm Post subject:

scout · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject:

I experience the same problem. Do you use the firewall that is given in the Gentoo-security doc ?

cavemanf16 · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:27 am Post subject: Me too!

I've had exactly the same problems, however I'm behind a Coyote Linux firewall system, which is probably contributing to my issues. I'll have to try that 'webrsync' trick later. Thanks everyone.

rex · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Mexico

Can somebody please help me. I also cannot issue an 'emerge sync'. I get the following response:

Accipiter · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject: Corroboration

I have the same problem. rsync.gentoo.org is consistently unresolvable. This appears to be an issue with the server itself.

soulwarrior · Guru Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 331

I have the same problem today (09.03.2003).

Emerge sync seems to only contact "rsync.gentoo.org".

Is there a method to fallback to another server for the emerge sync?

slow · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 7

me too

rex · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Mexico

cvk · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:10 am Post subject:

Same error here...
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soulwarrior · Guru Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 331

works again fine

Accipiter · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: Some information

There are at least three threads that have been started pertaining to this particular problem (the moderators should merge them, or at least make one sticky so more posts go there).

That said, a solution was proposed in one of the parallel threads that (I believe) was not posted here. Either way, I reiterate it for those of you who have not searched enough.
Add the following line to /etc/make.conf:

rex · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Mexico

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