maxim wexler schreef: >>But isn't >> >>emerge --sync >> >>a different command from the more traditional >> >>emerge sync >> >>? > > > In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that > fails, emerge-websync but that failed too. > > >>1) What is the speed of your Internet connection? > > > Slightly faster than I can type ;( > > >>2) What is your geographical location? > > > SW Canada > > >>3) What mirrors are you setting in /etc/make.conf? >> > > > ? All I got is > PORTDIR=/usr/portage
No, what I was asking is what this line says: SYNC="rsync://<some_portage_rsync_mirror>/gentoo-portage" The idea being that perhaps you were attempting to sync with a mirror that is far away from you, and that server perhaps is overloaded, or there is a transmission problem between you and it, due to the distance. For instance, I'm in Western Europe, so setting my rsync server to a mirror in Asia or South America is just asking for more problems than I need, because in order for me to communicate with a server so far away, my packets have to travel via Internet nodes/servers which could go down through no fault of mine or the server I'm trying to connect to. In such a case, someone in the area (Asia or South America) might themselves be able to connect to the server in question, but I would not be (because they don't have to travel through the node that I do to connect). So I was just trying to confirm that this was not (or was) a possible source of your problem. > > >>10 minutes: > > > After 4 hrs it quit. A list of /usr/portage revealed > no changes. But this morning after entering emerge > --sync I note the tree *is* > being updated. >>Number of files: 117192 >>Number of files transferred: 1671 >>Total file size: 92305590 bytes >>Total transferred file size: 3745266 bytes >>Literal data: 3745266 bytes >>Matched data: 0 bytes >>File list size: 2594553 >>Total bytes written: 33600 >>Total bytes read: 4157651 >> >>wrote 33600 bytes read 4157651 bytes 19270.12 >>bytes/sec >>total size is 92305590 speedup is 22.02 > > > This is similar to what I see followed by millions of > lines like this: > > /(something)/(something)/(something) > some-number 100% 0.00 kB/s 0:00:00 > > > Yesterday it quit with the message, error in rsync > port datastream(code 12) at io.c(201,189). > That indicates, afaik, a (usually temporary) server problem, and happened to me a couple of days ago. Since today we have all noticed that KDE 3.4.1 was released, and that's a lot of packages, it's quite possible that you tried to contact the server at the time it was trying to update itself, which is, not surprisingly, likely to fail. How long did your sync today take, and does an emerge -up world or emerge -ua world seem to indicate that it was successful (that packages you have installed have updates available)? Don't worry, the -p switch stands for --pretend, and the -a switch stands for --ask, so nothing will be updated without your approval by running either of the commands. We just want to know if the sync... synced. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
