I tried to emerge util-macros yesterday and it wasn't able to find it on any of the servers and it kept trying to. I found a discussion on the forums and didn't like their solution http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-491685-highlight-utilmacros.html?sid=1889758a07f5e5b8c4371db90a1f3ab2 so ALL I did was comment out GENTOO_MIRRORS and tried again. Then it found it at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/util/util-macros-1.1.0.tar.bz2 Portage had been synced and upgraded right before this issue showed. It then continued on it's way with emerging, and then today I was trying to reproduce the bug, by deleting the distfile and having GENTOO_MIRRORS not commented out. It still couldn't find the files on those servers, but skipped them very fast and then ended up at the above address and grabbed the file. Here's a listing of files that were emerged from incident to failed reproduction. Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache/" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." CLEAN_DELAY="5" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS="" CVS_RSH="ssh" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" DVB_CARDS="" EDITOR="/bin/nano" ELIBC="glibc" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose" EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10" FCDSL_CARDS="" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="" FRITZCAPI_CARDS="" GCC_SPECS="" GDK_USE_XFT="1" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/ ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ " G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1" G_FILENAME_ENCODING="UTF-8" HOME="/root" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/info" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" JAVAC="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin/javac" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03" JDK_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03" KDEDIRS="/usr" KERNEL="linux" LESS="-R -M --shift 5" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" LINGUAS="" LIRC_DEVICES="" LOGNAME="root" MAIL="/var/mail/root" MAKEOPTS="-j2" MANPATH="/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/man::/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man" MISDN_CARDS="" OPENGL_PROFILE="xorg-x11" PAGER="/usr/bin/less" PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.6:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc s390 amd64 ppc64 x86-fbsd m68k arm sparc sh mips ia64 alpha ppc-macos hppa x86" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/bin" PORTAGE_CALLER="emerge" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PRELINK_PATH="" PRELINK_PATH_MASK="/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8" PWD="/root" PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym" QMAKESPEC="linux-g++" QTDIR="/usr/qt/3" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}" ROOT="/" ROOTPATH="/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.6:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin" RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm" SHELL="/bin/bash" SHLVL="1" SSH_CLIENT="142.90.126.56 1495 22" SSH_CONNECTION="142.90.126.56 1495 192.168.65.54 22" SSH_TTY="/dev/pts/0" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" TERM="xterm" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdinstall cdparanoia cdr clamav cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ffmpeg flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal icq imagemagick imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mime motif mp3 mpeg msn multiuser ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_fbdev video_cards_mach64 video_cards_vesa vorbis xine xinerama xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib" USER="root" USERLAND="GNU" USE_EXPAND="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64 vesa fbdev ati" XARGS="xargs -r" _="/usr/bin/emerge"
Created attachment 99582 [details] list of emerges from bug "fix" to failed reproduction Didn't have the attachment function on previous post.
I have the exactly same problem, using stable amd64. I have browsed some servers and neither of them have util-macros-1.1.0 nor 1.1.1. I can not send the emerge info now (I dont have my computer nearby), but I think that the info is not necessary here, is it?
*** Bug 152789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there now, might have been a sync delay. Closing.