During an unattended, non-interactive build of many ports this evening I
ran into what I think indicates that the FTP server at freebsd.isc.org
is broken. Here is what I believe to be evidence, performed from a
FreeBSD 8.2 server at one site:
site1# fetch -vvp
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/GD-Arrow-0.01.tar.gz
scheme: [ftp]
user: []
password: []
host: [ftp.freebsd.org]
port: [0]
document: [/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/GD-Arrow-0.01.tar.gz]
---> ftp.freebsd.org:21
looking up ftp.freebsd.org
connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21
<<< 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
>>> USER anonymous
<<< 331 Please specify the password.
>>> PASS ag...@rose.agile.lan
<<< 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp
fetch:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/GD-Arrow-0.01.tar.gz:
Syntax error, command unrecognized
# echo $FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
YES
site1# ftp freebsd.isc.org
Trying 204.152.184.73...
Connected to freebsd.isc.org.
220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
Name (freebsd.isc.org:agile): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp
ftp: Login failed.
ftp> bye
500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd
There's no reason that I know of for anything on my end to be
referencing /home/ftp. I get this on a Windoze system from a second site
(different LAN, different WAN address, same city, same ISP):
C:\>ftp freebsd.isc.org
Connected to freebsd.isc.org.
220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
User (freebsd.isc.org:(none)): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp
500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd
Connection closed by remote host.
And I found this blog entry dated today in which the author is seeing
the same problem:
http://salihsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/freebsd-pkgadd-error-syntax-error.html
(http://tinyurl.com/42g7dv5)
When problems like this arise, shouldn't the FreeBSD port building
mechanisms take advantage of the redundant FreeBSD mirrors to roll over
to another working server? I use portmaster for port building and it
terminates with this sort of output when this scenario arises:
=> Attempting to fetch
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/gd-2.0.35.tar.bz2
fetch:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/gd-2.0.35.tar.bz2:
Syntax error, command unrecognized
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles// and try again.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gd.
What is the recommended way to enable portmaster to be more resilient
against such failures?
Carl / K0802647
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