Bug 255653 – sys-apps/portage fails to fetch anything via wget

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2009-01-20 16:20:20 UTC]

[root@box ~]# LC_ALL=c emerge -f fluxbox
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Fetching (1 of 1) x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0.0-r2
>>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.intergenia.de/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
--2009-01-20 17:13:47--  http://gentoo.intergenia.de/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Resolving gentoo.intergenia.de... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address `gentoo.intergenia.de'
>>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
--2009-01-20 17:13:47--  ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address `ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de'
>>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
--2009-01-20 17:13:47--  ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.tu-clausthal.de... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address `ftp.tu-clausthal.de'
>>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
--2009-01-20 17:13:47--  ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address `ftp.uni-erlangen.de'
>>> Downloading 'http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fluxbox/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'
--2009-01-20 17:13:47--  http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fluxbox/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Resolving keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address `keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net'
!!! Couldn't download 'fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
 * Fetch failed for 'x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0.0-r2'

>>> Failed to emerge x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0.0-r2

 * Messages for package x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0.0-r2:

 * Fetch failed for 'x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0.0-r2'
[root@box ~]# wget http://gentoo.intergenia.de/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2
--2009-01-20 17:14:00--  http://gentoo.intergenia.de/distfiles/fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Resolving gentoo.intergenia.de... 85.25.128.62
Connecting to gentoo.intergenia.de|85.25.128.62|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 767586 (750K) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2'

100%[==================================================================================================================================>] 767,586      157K/s   in 6.3s

2009-01-20 17:14:07 (119 KB/s) - `fluxbox-1.0.0.tar.bz2' saved [767586/767586]


[root@box ~]# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.28-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:05:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
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/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.intergenia.de/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="c"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac acl alsa amr apache2 arts berkdb bzip2 cdrw cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode faad ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm graphviz gtk gtk2 iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k lzo mad midi mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php png pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sndfile spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode utempter utf8 vcd vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma wmf x264 x86 xinerama xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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="access auth authz_default authz_groupfile authz_owner authz_user authz_host auth_dbm auth_anon auth_digest alias file-cache echo charset-lite cache disk-cache mem-cache ext-filter case_filter case-filter-in deflate mime-magic cern-meta expires headers usertrack unique-id proxy proxy-connect proxy-ftp proxy-http info include cgi cgid dav dav-fs rewrite log_config logio env setenvif mime status autoindex asis negotiation dir imap actions userdir so filter dumpio ext_filter headers vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev vga i810 vesa sis"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2009-01-20 17:13:58 UTC]

Maybe you have restrictive permissions on /etc/resolv.conf. If necessary, you can set FEATURES="-userfetch" so that emerge won't drop privileges when fetching.

[Comment 2 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2009-01-20 19:00:24 UTC]

Thanks, I should've seen it myself.
From my /var/log/messages, it seems that dhcpcd might have been involved, but I cannot reproduce this.