Can't emerge files... 404 file not found

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

I am relatively new to Gentoo, but I swear this was working 2 weeks ago.

Typing emerge world calculates the dependencies, and then I get...

-JeaN- · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 6:24 pm Post subject:

Did you change that line on your make.conf ?

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

I have enabled and added a few mirrors from that linked list... and it searches through all of the mirrors giving me the same 404 error... I can browse the web fine, so I assume my nameserver is set alright... any other thoughts. Could I have emerged something or unmerged something that could have broken it?

-JeaN- · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject:

Maybe you are trying to emerge some unstable packet that doesn't exist in the mirrors you provided ? ( though i doubt that's the problem )
I can't help more sorry, all i know is that 404 error means "page/file not found".

Good luck

Jean

acreal · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Brussels

'emerge sync' keeps you up-to-date on the files available in the portage tree...

blasterboy · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Belgium

Do you use a mix of both http and ftp sites ? Do you get refusals both on the http and the ftp sites when you do use them both ?

Can you surf normally on the web ? Are you using a proxy ?

I am behind a proxy, and need to do :

madchaz · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject:

404 file not found
an HTTP error saying the file isn't there

just so we're all clear. it's not a FTP problem. he's not using FTP

and he obviouslly gets a connection, seince he gets an awnser

that being said, i think emerge sync will fix the prob.
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marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

I wish emerge sync was the fix, but I have done that prior to all emerge world attempts. The sync appears succesfull. As for the packages, it seems to hang on everything, parted, gaim, etc...

Here is the full display of my emerge attempt

Egal · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 99

Hi

When I try to emerge libid3tag, it downloads the file from:
http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mad/libid3tag-0.15.0b.tar.gz
(some other mirrors responsed 404 too here) ..

So get the file from that URL above and save it to /usr/portage/distfiles ..
That should work.

cu Egal

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

No luck, downloading the libid3tag file lets me build that, and then it hangs on the next... boy this is disheartening. It had been working, I just don't know what happened to bum it up like this.

logon · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:38 am Post subject:

>>> Downloading <your_mirror_here>/distfiles/libid3tag-0.15.0b.tar.gz

As far as i know, it would be a good idea to delete that <your_mirror_here>.
I am from germany. I saw you are trying to use the Uni-Bochum Server. I use the one from Aachen. ftp://sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo

Maybe try that one. It works great for me.

madchaz · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:39 am Post subject:

sounds like the mirror it's trying to use is broken. I think someone sujested higher up a way to force it to use another mirror. I think you might want to try that.
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sledge · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 6

You have to temporarily set up 100 mirrors entries in your make.conf to make sure to find that file:

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

Well, I don't have the mirrorselect tool installed, but having 6 mirrors listed I "shouldn't" have a problem. Although more is always better in my books. I tried that ftp link that somebody listed, and it appears to log in quite fine as anonymous, but still says the file can not be found....

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

Do you think that it would be appropriate, concidering the circumstances to file a bug report for this issue. I have been unable to find any resolution to this problem.

P.S. Is it possible that I did something to emerge that would cause emerge sync to generate a less than desireable list of packages.... i.e. upgrade to unstable only...etc?

I'm not too familiar with emerge, so I really don't know

As always, thanks

mta · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 28 Location: Australia

did you try the mirrorselect tool as suggested? its possible your 6 mirrors arent working..

emerge mirrorselect

its tiny... and very useful

marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

Ok, oddly enough emerge mirrorselect worked automatically without fault. Even with 100 mirrors selected, arts-1.1.3.tar.bz2 fails to download. Ftp servers say no such file, http says 404 file not found. Is arts-1.1.3 a standard file for installation, or is it perhaps unstable. I just find it odd that some files are installing fine, and others are simply not on the servers.

madchaz · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:20 am Post subject:

I've been having similar problems. In my case I end up on a working mirror after a few tried but I can see this not working for some people.

I'm also adding a bug in buxilla about it

it,s bug no 26113

if someone could add a list of packadges / mirrors that give this problem, please add it there and here
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blasterboy · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Belgium

Why not post your /etc/make.conf in here - maybe there is something really basic that we are overlooking...

Can't hurt to have a look through it...

miyodea · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 1 Location: San Antonio TX

I'm doing a brand new install. I have had about 25 or 30 404 errors on emerge system. Luckily I can scp them from another box, but this is not very efficient. The errors are mainly coming from ftp.gnu.org, alph.gnu.org, prep.ai.mit.edu, and maybe one or two others. I know that ftp.gnu.org was hacked and files were removed from the site for verification, but that has been over a week at least. Weird thing is. Last Sunday I was doing two simultneous gentoo installations. One box was started on bootstrap about two hours before the other. The first box built to completion, and the other started the 404 error problems on bootsrap. A week later, and I'm having the same problem on a different box.
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marsonist · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

I thought that the update to portage had resolved my issues, as I had twice performed an emerge world without a hitch. Just as I thought perhaps the issue was resolved I am gettting hung up on the file binutils-2.14.90.0.6.tar.bz2.

A comment made in the bugzille entry made it seem that one of the e-builds I mentioned was masked. Is the above mentioned e-build masked, or a normal upgrade

luugin · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 69

I have the exact same problem while doing an emerge -u world. It goes through all the mirrors saying "file not found" and then hangs while attempting to connect to ftp.gnome.org (the package where it fails is linc-1.0.3).

:E

edit: i manually checked my mirrors, and indeed, the file wasnt on there

so im just gonna try more mirrors...

owensd · n00b Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 23

I'm experiencing the same problem... my mirrors (acquired with mirrorselect) 404 out.

However, one of my mirrors (don't really think it is a mirror though) doesn't 404 out, instead it timeouts - ftp://ftp.gnome.org/
I think it is not a mirror because it doesn't have the format that mirrors have (i.e. the /distfiles dir, it has pub/gnome/sources/<packagename>/<version>/<file>)

First off, if you are having this same timeout issue, there is a simple fix to get the package: simply 'wget' the ftp.gnome.org/blah BUT be sure to change the protocol from ftp:// to http://. Remeber to put these downloaded files in your /usr/portage/distfiles directory.

My question is whether or not there is a way to modify this automatically. It looks like this is stored in the ebuild of the package...

Thanks!

(editted for clarity)

cleber · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:02 am Post subject:

I was having trouble to download "gnome-panel-2.2.2.2.tar.bz2". It gave me a 404 error.

So I downloaded it from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-panel/2.2/gnome-panel-2.2.2.2.tar.bz2 and it worked (tip from the post above, changed the protocol for http).

Thanks!
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Glorandar · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:33 am Post subject: It looks like an developer oops

These gnome (v2.2.2) related 404 errors look like a developer mistake to me:

One example (the ORBit2 library v2.6.3) was moved from ~x86 to x86 at "Sun Aug 24 18:22:26 2003 UTC" by a developer named obz.

Yet the ORBit2-2.6.3.tar.bz2 ball isn't on the distfiles mirrors. I just checked the distro.ibiblio.org mirror and it isn't there either.

Let's hope the distfiles catches up to the stable ebuilds soon.
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