Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync
What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync (latest stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the servers in the European pool, but... all of them? Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I don't see any documentation that indicates that that has changed or become deprecated or invalid, but maybe it has. I don't particularly want to switch permanently to the US pool, as that just seems to make more vectors of instability for everybody, and is not really the point of having continental mirror pools anyway. Anybody got a clue as to what's happening and what, if anything, I can do to fix it? You didn't state which version of rsync, but the versions below 2.6.4 do have timeout issues. See the following bugs: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83254 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync
Paul Varner schreef: What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync (latest stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the servers in the European pool, but... all of them? Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I don't see any documentation that indicates that that has changed or become deprecated or invalid, but maybe it has. I don't particularly want to switch permanently to the US pool, as that just seems to make more vectors of instability for everybody, and is not really the point of having continental mirror pools anyway. Anybody got a clue as to what's happening and what, if anything, I can do to fix it? You didn't state which version of rsync, but the versions below 2.6.4 do have timeout issues. See the following bugs: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83254 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 Thanks for the tip, Paul-- that could definitely be the issue: net-misc/rsync Available versions: 2.6.0-r5 2.6.0-r6 ~2.6.3-r1 ~2.6.4 ~2.6.5 ~2.6.6 Installed: 2.6.0-r6 For the time being, I've changed my sync mirror pool to the national one (rather than the continental one), which seems like it's OK (but it's early days yet, and I haven't tested extensively). Is it worth going unstable with rsync for this? meaning, will using an unstable rsync cause me any real problems, even as it (hopefully) solves this (relatively minor) annoyance? Thanks for the links; I'll look at the bugs later. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 16:49 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Is it worth going unstable with rsync for this? meaning, will using an unstable rsync cause me any real problems, even as it (hopefully) solves this (relatively minor) annoyance? I have not seen any stability issues with 2.6.4 or higher both with Gentoo and a completely unrelated project at work that uses rsync. The project at work did have significant issues with the timeout until we upgraded rsync to 2.6.4. Thanks for the links; I'll look at the bugs later. Quick summary, when the load on the server side is high, rsync will erroneously timeout. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:24, Holly Bostick wrote: snip Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I don't see any documentation that indicates that that has changed or become deprecated or invalid, but maybe it has. I don't particularly want to switch permanently to the US pool, as that just seems to make more vectors of instability for everybody, and is not really the point of having continental mirror pools anyway. Anybody got a clue as to what's happening and what, if anything, I can do to fix it? Holly, I just ran emerge --sync and it went OK using the mirror at Staler.net. The only difference is that my default is rsync.uk.gentoo.org but I don't think the mirror pool is much different with the possible exception of Telehouse which doesn't appear much anyway. Other than suggesting that the force is weak in The Nederlands today can't be of much help I'm afraid. -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
