When running emerge --sync, I get the error shown in Actual Results. It does this three times and then quits. If I manually ftp into rsync.au.gentoo.org, I can get to the gentoo-portage/metadata folder, but there is no timestamp.chk, only timestamp and timestamp.x. This happens on two different boxes of mine, both of which were syncing fine a few days ago. I don't remember having made any change to the make.conf on either of them for a little while now. If I change my SYNC var to "rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage", emerge --sync works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set SYNC to "rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 2. Run emerge --sync Actual Results: jmoe@jhb5970 ~ $ sudo emerge --sync >>> Starting rsync with rsync://136.186.1.76/gentoo-portage... >>> Checking server timestamp ... ------------------------------------------------------------- F T P . S W I N . E D U . A U Swinburne University of Technology Information Technology Services ------------------------------------------------------------- rsync://ftp.swin.edu.au/ ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/ http://ftp.swin.edu.au/ System: ftp.swin.edu.au (136.186.1.76) Hardware: 2 x AMD Opteron 2.2GHz dual-core, 4GB RAM Location: Hawthorn, VIC Australia Contact: UNIX Systems Group <systems@swin.edu.au> ------------------------------------------------------------- receiving incremental file list rsync: link_stat "/metadata/timestamp.chk" (in gentoo-portage) failed: No such file or directory (2) Number of files: 0 Number of files transferred: 0 Total file size: 0 bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 1 Total bytes sent: 47 Total bytes received: 6 sent 47 bytes received 6 bytes 35.33 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1506) [receiver=3.0.3] >>> Retrying... Expected Results: Sync'ed with the local mirror jmoe@jhb5970 ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=prescott -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/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=prescott -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_AU" LC_ALL="en_AU" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_AU en_GB en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa arts audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr clamav cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fltk fontconfig fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq isdnlog java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde lame ldap libwww lirc lm_sensors lzo midi mime mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime raw rdesktop readline real reflection ruby samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg svga sysfs szip tcl tcpd theora tiff tk truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf x86 xcomposite xine xinetd xorg xpm xscreensaver xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_AU en_GB en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Seems to be sorted now.
