Bug 25305 – emerge of sys-apps/util-linux-2.12 failes. can not log in to ftp as anonymous

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description stefan 2003-07-26 00:50:07 UTC]

When I try to emerge sys-apps/util-linux-2.12,  the download of util-linux-2.12.tar.gz 
fails. First several servers return 404: Not Found then finally emerge trys to connect to 
ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/aeb/util-linux/util-linux-2.12.tar.gz and gives up after retrying 
several times. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a command shell 
2.set the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" environment variable 
3.type: emerge sys-apps/util-linux and press enter 
 
Actual Results:  
emerge runs, trying to download util-linux-2.12.tar.gz and eventually gives up with the 
message: 
 
!!! Couldn't download util-linux-2.12.tar.gz. Aborting. 
 

Expected Results:  
It should have downloaded all necessary files required for the ebuild and suceeded at 
that.

[Comment 1 Zhen Lin 2003-07-26 03:15:34 UTC]

This is a really upstream error...

Have you set GENTOO_MIRRORS in make.conf? This might be a viable workaround.

[Comment 2 stefan 2003-07-26 06:18:17 UTC]

The following GENTOO_MIRRORS entry was set:
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.56.152/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.3/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"

Removing it actually resolved the problem.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-07-28 08:17:36 UTC]

Great, thanks.