manifest mismatch

[potuz]

For months I've been having the manifest mismatch problem at the end of this log. However today it started happening that also a sync does not download files and the timestamp is not updated:

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Number of files: 161,651 (reg: 134,206, dir: 27,445)
Number of created files: 2 (reg: 2)
Number of deleted files: 8 (reg: 8)
Number of regular files transferred: 36
Total file size: 215.93M bytes
Total transferred file size: 633.63K bytes
Literal data: 633.63K bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 2.01M
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 30.21K
Total bytes received: 4.64M

sent 30.21K bytes  received 4.64M bytes  55.88K bytes/sec
total size is 215.93M  speedup is 46.28
 * Manifest timestamp: 2018-08-21 20:38:34 UTC
 * Valid OpenPGP signature found:
 * - primary key: DCD05B71EAB94199527F44ACDB6B8C1F96D8BF6D
 * - subkey: E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250
 * - timestamp: 2018-08-21 20:38:34 UTC
 * Verifying /usr/portage/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine ...!!! Manifest verification failed:
Manifest mismatch for media-libs/game-music-emu/Manifest
  __exists__: expected: True, have: False
q: Updating ebuild cache for /usr/portage ... 
q: Finished 35476 entries in 0.159338 seconds

Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 1

I'd appreciate any help.

[fedeliallalinea]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/648596

[ericbish]

Had the same problem with 3 gentoo systems, including my Pi3. Resolved with:

mv /usr/portage to /usr/old_portage
mkdir /usr/portage


Rerun emerge --sync.

I was never able to figure out exactly what was causing the manifest issue.

[khayyam]

potuz ...

given the error seems to be triggered by 'hardlinks' you might dry disabling this (new) feature:

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sync-allow-hardlinks = no

HTH & best ... khay

[spindle]

potuz ...

given the error seems to be triggered by 'hardlinks' you might dry disabling this (new) feature:

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sync-allow-hardlinks = no

HTH & best ... khay

I saw this issue for the first time today. That fix worked for me.

[Anon-E-moose]

You will still get a message about manifest verification, but you won't be left in a weird state, with a hidden directory.

[potuz]

Just in case, I hit this again now and it turns out that it was due to rsync-excludes, I had to remove the file cause the missing Manifest.gz in each one of them was giving trouble. I am not sure if this is a bug in portage, since why would the sync system complain about a file that is being explicitly exlcuded in rsync-excludes?

[mani001]

I solved this by switching to another rsync mirror

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mirrorselect -ir

and then choosing whatever (I chose one in France, but either I'm very lucky or -almost- any one will do)

[jserink]

potuz ...

given the error seems to be triggered by 'hardlinks' you might dry disabling this (new) feature:

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sync-allow-hardlinks = no

HTH & best ... khay

This just worked for me.

Cheers,
John

[MidnightCheese]

The hardlinks toggle worked for me as well. I've had this issue going on for months. Sometimes changing the mirror helped. Hopefully this will be the final solution going forward.

[v_andal]

Thank you, setting

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sync-allow-hardlinks = no

helped in my case as well.

[sigra]

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sync-allow-hardlinks = no

HTH & best ... khay

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# emerge --sync
!!! Error while reading repo config file: File contains no section headers.
file: '/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf', line: 1
'sync-allow-hardlinks = no\n'

[Phoenix591]

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sync-allow-hardlinks = no

HTH & best ... khay

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# emerge --sync
!!! Error while reading repo config file: File contains no section headers.
file: '/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf', line: 1
'sync-allow-hardlinks = no\n'

copy the example/default from /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf to /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf and then add the no hardlinks line at the bottom.