[SOLVED] Couldn't download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz. Aborting.

[DiZASTiX]

Ok, so everytime I try emerge system it tries to download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz and fails and gives the error:

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Couldn't download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz. Aborting.

And if I look back, it says:

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ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/cmd_tars/attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz
(try: 5) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz'
==> CWD not required.
==> PASV ... done.   ==> RETR attr-2.4.19.tar.gz ... done

[<=>                                  ] 0      --.--K/s
(0.00 B/s) - Data transfer aborted.
Giving up.

Then it gives that error. The strange thing is, oss.sgi.com is not even in my /etc/make.conf for a mirror! What should I do?

[og-phantom]

Ok, so everytime I try emerge system it tries to download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz and fails and gives the error:

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Couldn't download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz. Aborting.

And if I look back, it says:

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ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/cmd_tars/attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz
(try: 5) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz'
==> CWD not required.
==> PASV ... done.   ==> RETR attr-2.4.19.tar.gz ... done

[<=>                                  ] 0      --.--K/s
(0.00 B/s) - Data transfer aborted.
Giving up.

Then it gives that error. The strange thing is, oss.sgi.com is not even in my /etc/make.conf for a mirror! What should I do?

after having to reinstall this morning (due to my XFS partition crapping out), i get the same thing....it emerge'd system fine last night.... Strange...But I got around it by emerging a lower version of it...also acl does the same thing, again emerging a lesser version and it's still going so i hope it's just those 2 packages that are messed up right now...

[DiZASTiX]

Ok, so everytime I try emerge system it tries to download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz and fails and gives the error:

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Couldn't download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz. Aborting.

And if I look back, it says:

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ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/cmd_tars/attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz
(try: 5) => `/usr/portage/distfiles/attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz'
==> CWD not required.
==> PASV ... done.   ==> RETR attr-2.4.19.tar.gz ... done

[<=>                                  ] 0      --.--K/s
(0.00 B/s) - Data transfer aborted.
Giving up.

Then it gives that error. The strange thing is, oss.sgi.com is not even in my /etc/make.conf for a mirror! What should I do?

after having to reinstall this morning (due to my XFS partition crapping out), i get the same thing....it emerge'd system fine last night.... Strange...But I got around it by emerging a lower version of it...also acl does the same thing, again emerging a lesser version and it's still going so i hope it's just those 2 packages that are messed up right now...

how would I go about emerging a lesser version?

thanks.

[mike_c]

im getting the same thing

at first i thought the problem is that the version on the sgi server was screwed up, so i downloaded it from another source and put it with distfiles, and then even weirder stuff happens

i get an error like this

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#emerge attr
....
The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do
!!! Couldn't download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz

seems a bit contradictory

best bet is probably just to use an older portage tree, the newest ones tend to be buggy

[DiZASTiX]

im getting the same thing

at first i thought the problem is that the version on the sgi server was screwed up, so i downloaded it from another source and put it with distfiles, and then even weirder stuff happens

i get an error like this

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#emerge attr
....
The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do
!!! Couldn't download attr-2.4.19.src.tar.gz

seems a bit contradictory

best bet is probably just to use an older portage tree, the newest ones tend to be buggy

hmm, I wonder if this is something that has just occurred today / recently. Figures the day I decide to install it somethings wrong

Well, let me know if you find anything else out...

[Aronek]

I had the same problem: you can't download attr from that site. This is what I did:

a) Edit /usr/portage/sys-apps/attr/attr-2.4.19.ebuild and change the SRC_URI line to use a mirror:

SRC_URI="ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/${P}.src.tar.gz"

b) build a new digest with this command:

ebuild attr-2.4.19.ebuild digest

...then the emerge should work.

Also, acl was busted in the same way: change the file /usr/portage/sys-apps/acl/acl-2.2.27.ebuild to this SRC_URI:

SRC_URI="ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/${P}.src.tar.gz"

...then run...

ebuild acl-2.2.27.ebuild digest

...then emerge.

At least it worked for me.

Regards,

Aronek

[DiZASTiX]

I had the same problem: you can't download attr from that site. This is what I did:

a) Edit /usr/portage/sys-apps/attr/attr-2.4.19.ebuild and change the SRC_URI line to use a mirror:

SRC_URI="ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/${P}.src.tar.gz"

b) build a new digest with this command:

ebuild attr-2.4.19.ebuild digest

...then the emerge should work.

Also, acl was busted in the same way: change the file /usr/portage/sys-apps/acl/acl-2.2.27.ebuild to this SRC_URI:

SRC_URI="ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/${P}.src.tar.gz"

...then run...

ebuild acl-2.2.27.ebuild digest

...then emerge.

At least it worked for me.

Regards,

Aronek

worked like a charm, thank you!!!

and just out of curiosity, what does the ebuild / digest command do?

[kimchi_sg]

worked like a charm, thank you!!!

and just out of curiosity, what does the ebuild / digest command do?

Please put a [SOLVED] in the thread title to indicate that the solution works.

As for the ebuild command, it re-generates the MD5 digest (checksum) of the ebuild and the files in the ebuild's directory, after you have changed any files inside it.

[Daemonax]

Just want to say thanks Aronek for your fix.... hopefully this'll get fixed soon..

I wonder how broken ebuilds get into portage in the first place

[DiLupo]

Just want to say thanks Aronek for your fix.... hopefully this'll get fixed soon..

I wonder how broken ebuilds get into portage in the first place

Helped me as well, so thanx!
With regards to your question to broken ebuilds, It's even worse when the ebuilds are used when you do an 'emerge system' during your stage 1 installation... Thank g** it's not an unattended installation

[OldTango]

I ran into this problem late last night. Thanks for the info I was able to get back to work on this this morning.................................

[mfinger]

Appears to be broken again:

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%# ebuild acl-2.2.27.ebuild digest 
>>> Resuming download...
>>> Downloading ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz
--13:22:11--  ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz'
Resolving xfs.org... 160.94.232.50
Connecting to xfs.org[160.94.232.50]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /mirror/SGI/cmd_tars ... 
No such directory `mirror/SGI/cmd_tars'.

!!! Couldn't download acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz. Aborting.

Is there another mirror that can be used?

Edit:
I found a place that had the tarball, I used this:

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SRC_URI="http://smgl.positivism.org/${P}.src.tar.gz"

Your milage may vary, and up to you if your trust that link. I just googled for "acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz" and found a bunch of mirrors.

[kimchi_sg]

Appears to be broken again:

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%# ebuild acl-2.2.27.ebuild digest 
>>> Resuming download...
>>> Downloading ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz
--13:22:11--  ftp://xfs.org/mirror/SGI/cmd_tars/acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz'
Resolving xfs.org... 160.94.232.50
Connecting to xfs.org[160.94.232.50]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /mirror/SGI/cmd_tars ... 
No such directory `mirror/SGI/cmd_tars'.

!!! Couldn't download acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz. Aborting.

I found a place that had the tarball, I used this:

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SRC_URI="http://smgl.positivism.org/${P}.src.tar.gz"

Your milage may vary, and up to you if your trust that link. I just googled for "acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz" and found a bunch of mirrors.

Yes, the xfs.org site is down as well.

And that means those who are about to emerge attr and acl (like me) had better edit their ebuilds again to change their SRC_URIs to http://smgl.positivism.org/${P}.src.tar.gz for example.

That appears to be quite a nice site, storing many linux packages.

[lazyleopard]

And that means those who are about to emerge attr and acl (like me) had better edit their ebuilds again to change their SRC_URIs to http://smgl.positivism.org/${P}.src.tar.gz for example.

It's a pity the source-downloading doesn't use some sort of mirror-rotation-and-retry scheme, really... :/

Oh well.

[racoontje]

AFAIK, it normally does, but not every mirror has it.

[lazyleopard]

AFAIK, it normally does, but not every mirror has it.

Yeah, I found that. Seems this is a special case (though I had a similar problem with Xorg a few weeks back) where the miroring has been turned off. I guess that's Ok for a short time, but when it gets hit because a previously de-selected portage is suddenly a depenency for something almost everyone has in their system file, the single site is going to get clobbered. :/

[FuzzeX]

The attr and acl packages are included because of the acl useflag. It causes them to be dependencies of rsync. Add USE="-acl" to /etc/make.conf and it will remove them from the dependencies.

(I'm not using acls or xfs so it doesn't look like I need these).

[scrapper]

now I'm having the this message when running ebuild *** digest

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waiting for lock on /usr/portage/distfiles/.locks/acl-2.2.27.src.tar.gz.portage_lockfile 

I've waited for nearly an hour and nothing is being done.

[metalcoat]

scrapper just delete the lock_file.... that should do it fine / otherwise you may have 2 instances of portage running say a different terminal