Today I started an emerge --sync as usual to update my portage tree and I got the following error at the beginning of the sync: [...] Gentoo-Users: You've hit rsync1.at.gentoo.org/81.223.20.162 receiving file list ... overflow: flags=0x68 l1=118 l2=402653188 lastname=dev-python/twisted-conch/files/twisted-conch-0.6.0-root-skip.patch ERROR: buffer overflow in receive_file_entry [receiver] rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(121) [receiver=2.6.9] >>> Retrying... [...] My emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc4-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 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/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects-experimental /usr/portage/local/layman/armagetron /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acpi alsa arts audiofile avahi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dbus dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fuse gd gdbm gif glut gnutls gpm gstreamer hal iconv icq ieee1394 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ lua mad matroska mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg msn mule mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sasl sdl session slang spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl subversion svg svga symlink tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Er...is this reproducable?
Ehm...no, I haven't been able to reproduce it... emerge retried to sync for a second time and everything went well.
if we can get a reproducible thing going, we can investigate ...
