Bug 20858 – ftp://metalab.unc.edu seems to be refusing connections

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Mirrors

[Description Dylan Cooke 2003-05-12 11:51:27 UTC]

Today I tried to emerge openoffice, and one of the required components is 
J2SDK FCS 1.3.1.. here is the error message I got:

>>> Downloading 
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.3.1/i386/FCS/j2sdk-1.3.1-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2
--09:42:28--  
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.3.1/i386/FCS/j2sdk-1.3.1-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/j2sdk-1.3.1-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2'
Resolving metalab.unc.edu... done.
Connecting to metalab.unc.edu[152.2.210.81]:21... failed: Connection 
refused.
!!! Couldn't download j2sdk-1.3.1-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2. Aborting.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in as root
2. Type "emerge openoffice"
3. Observe the error

Actual Results:  
The server refused the connection

Expected Results:  
Downloaded, unpacked and installed j2sdk so OpenOffice could then be installed.

Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AuthenticAMD
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/dteyn/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod 
mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv aalib alsa 
arts berkdb bonobo cdr esd gdbm gif gnome gnome-libs gpm gtk gtkhtml guile 
imlib ldap motif mozilla nls oggvorbis opengl pam perl png python qt 
readline sdl slang snmp ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff X -cups"
COMPILER=""
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="no"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox"

[Comment 1 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2003-05-12 11:56:40 UTC]

From this page:  

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/

"The ibiblio Gentoo mirror is currently unavailable due to hardware 
maintenance.  We apologize for the inconvenience.  We hope to have all 
services back online by 10:00 AM EDT."

marking as cantfix.

[Comment 2 Peter Penkala 2003-09-26 13:32:29 UTC]

See previous comment.  "cantfix"