Bug 97823 – emerge --sync cannot find metadata/timestamp.chk

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Mirrors

[Description Graham Murray 2005-07-03 07:56:16 UTC]

I have tried several rsync mirrors and all are failing very soon into the
process. They all complain that a file could be not transfered, most identify
this as metadata/timestamp.chk. This file exists in my local portage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync


Actual Results:  
Rsync fails

Expected Results:  
portage to sync with the mirrors

emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.1
                                                                         
2-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo http://gentoo.math.bme.hu
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://gentoo.itdnet.net/gentoo/
ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo/"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/"
USE="x86 X a52 aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib caps cdparanoia cdr cjk
crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal examples exif
expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome
gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq ieee1394
imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jce jpeg junit kde lcms leim
libg++ libwww lm_sensors lython mad mbox mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng motif
mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msn ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar
oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline recode
sdl sharedmem slang sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell sse ssl svg sysvipc
tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode
usb v4l vhosts vorbis win32codecs wmf xface xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo
zlib linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Graham Murray 2005-07-03 13:30:22 UTC]

Have now found a mirror which works

[Comment 2 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-07-21 06:42:26 UTC]

can you specify which mirror it was that didnt have timestamp.chk? if its no
longer a problem, please close this bug as INVALID. thanks

-jeff

[Comment 3 Graham Murray 2005-07-24 14:02:30 UTC]

Temporary problem, now works OK