Bug 759850 – rsync: [sender] link_stat "/metadata/timestamp.chk" (in gentoo-portage) failed: No such file or directory (2)

• Product: Mirrors
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Iain Oliver 2020-12-13 19:57:23 UTC]

emerge --sync failed
 * Running emerge --sync
!!! Repository 'reagentoo' has sync-uri attribute, but is missing sync-type attribute
>>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'...
 * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc
 * Refreshing keys via WKD ...                                                                                                                                                                                                       [ ok ]
>>> Starting rsync with rsync://[2001:470:1f14:104f::2]/gentoo-portage...
>>> Checking server timestamp ...
Welcome to martin.gentoo.org / rsync.gentoo.org

Server Address : 85.143.112.91
Contact Name   : [e-mail]
Hardware       : 8 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz, 32223MB RAM
Sponsor        : National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia

Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
than once a day.  Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
may be added to a temporary ban list.

MOTD autogenerated by update-rsync-motd on Thu Apr  4 19:09:21 UTC 2019

receiving incremental file list
rsync: [sender] link_stat "/metadata/timestamp.chk" (in gentoo-portage) failed: No such file or directory (2)

Number of files: 0
Number of created files: 0
Number of deleted files: 0
Number of regular 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: 130
Total bytes sent: 62
Total bytes received: 130

sent 62 bytes  received 130 bytes  128.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1816) [Receiver=3.2.3]
>>> Retrying...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge --sync
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
sync fails

Expected Results:  
sync portage tree

[Comment 1 Jan Breig 2020-12-13 20:05:46 UTC]

Same issue here

[Comment 2 Allistar 2020-12-13 20:37:49 UTC]

I experience this issue too. The mirrors I use are:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.ncnu.edu.tw/Linux/Gentoo/ "

The end of the "eix-sync" results is:

---
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1816) [Receiver=3.2.3]
>>> Retrying...
!!! Exhausted addresses for rsync.au.gentoo.org

Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 1


 * emerge --sync failed
 * Time statistics:
    10 seconds for syncing
    21 seconds total
---

[Comment 3 Allistar 2020-12-13 22:09:57 UTC]

I can confirm that with my mirrors:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.ncnu.edu.tw/Linux/Gentoo/ "

This issue has been fixed. The metadata/timestamp.chk file is now there.

[Comment 4 Iain Oliver 2020-12-14 18:26:32 UTC]

I tried syncing again today and it worked correctly.

[Comment 5 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2020-12-14 18:47:03 UTC]

Yeah we fixed this yesterday. A pam upgrade broke cron for a while :/

-A