The UK rsync mirror ignores the value of RSYNC_TIMEOUT in /etc/make.conf. 'emerge sync' downloads a list of files then is busy checking them. During this time there is no activity on the TCP session. If this period of network inactivity exceeds 180 seconds, the rsync mirror closes the connection with a TCP FIN. I have set RSYNC_TIMEOUT=900 in /etc/make.conf, but the session is still closed after 180s of network inactivity. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 12 2004, 13:35:10)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -pipe -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl aim alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib caps cdparanoia cdr crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers divx4linux doc dvd dvdr emacs encode esd exif f77 faac fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber java jce jpeg junit kde lcms leim libg++ libwww live lm_sensors mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg msn native ncurses network nls nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl png posix postgres python qt quicktime readline recode sdl shared sharedmem slang snmp sockets speex spell sse ssl svg svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype type1 unicode usb utf8 wmf wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib linguas_en_GB"
I believe if you set rsync_timeout=0, that will disable all timeouts.
setting RSYNC_TIMEOUT=0 has no effect. rsync.uk.gentoo.org still closes the connection after 180s of inactivity.
I have had a similar problem, but it seems somehow related to the netfilter state machine firewall rules. If I just flush all the rules and set the policies to ACCEPT the problem seems to go away. I'm investigating this further.
reopen if this is still an issue. i have not heard any further reports of issues. -jeffrey
