I know this happened to me before. though not an instillation problem It happens to me a lot trying to emerge cups, its been forever ago but i think it happened to me when i first installed the OS with cups. with cups a lot of the time it is indeed on the mirror though not in the distfiles directory rather its on a different directory in the mirror. maybe a symbolic link on the mirrors could fix that and others like it. though i didn't look into this current example. Though sometimes increasing the mirror count with mirrorselect pulling in and using maybe 30 or 40 mirrors instead of 3, may help, especially when the mirrors might be slightly out of sync with recent new versions and such. It shouldn't take any longer to mirrorselect it and the only real drawback to 30 or 40 mirrors is a bigger make.conf file. you still get the fastest at the front of the list when it does 404 you keep going to the next mirror.
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: > Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found. > Resolving vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl... failed: Host not found. > Resolving chod.cwru.edu... 129.22.21.15 > Connecting to chod.cwru.edu[129.22.21.15]:21... connected. > Logging in as anonymous ... > Error in server greeting. > >>> Downloading > ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz > --09:33:29-- > ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz > => `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' > Resolving mirror.gentoo.ru... 213.248.55.87 > Connecting to mirror.gentoo.ru[213.248.55.87]:21... connected. > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! > ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. > ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles ... > No such directory `pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles'. > >>> Downloading http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz > --09:33:32-- http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz > => `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' > Resolving www.sleepycat.com... 209.235.255.184 > Connecting to www.sleepycat.com[209.235.255.184]:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > 09:33:32 ERROR 404: Not Found. > > !!! Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. > > !!! Fetch for /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.1.25_p1-r4.ebuild failed, > continuing... > > > I downloaded portage-20050112.tar.bz2 and I used emerge --sync > per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 > > Yes, I am using the 2004.3 LiveCD > > I did execute mirrorselect and this is what it picked: > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo > ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ > ftp://chod.cwru.edu/ > gentoo ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/"; > > > Manually downloading will fix this problem for me, but how can we fix > this problem for the next guy ? > > > -Thanks > Steve More > > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:34:22 +0200, Ivan Yosifov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why does it fail ( connection error ? , not found on server ? ) ? Are > > you using the portage snapshot from the LiveCD , or have you downloaded > > the current tree with emerge --sync ? Which LiveCD are you using > > ( 2004.3 ? ) ? > > Are you using some sort of local mirror for downloading sources ? > > > > On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: > > > I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. > > > I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. > > > > > > I have been trying to get the following to work: > > > emerge --fetchonly system > > > > > > It complains about: > > > > > > Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. > > > Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. > > > > > > I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any > > > farther. > > > > > > Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) > > > > > > -Thanks > > > Steve More > > > > > > -- > > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > > -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir. d$b .d$$$$$$b. .cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$$$$$$$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. $$$$( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$$$$$b Q$$$$$$$P$$$P.$$$$$$$b. .$$$$$$$b. Q$$$$$$$$$$B$$$$$$$$P" d$$$PQ$$$$b. $$$$. .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ "$$$$$$$P Q$$$$$$$b d$$$P Q$$$$b $$$$b $$$$b..d$$$ $$$$b..d$$$ d$$$$$$P" "$$$$$$$$ Q$$$ Q$$$$ $$$$$ `Q$$$$$$$P `Q$$$$$$$P $$$$$$$P `""""" "" "" Q$$$P "Q$$$P" "Q$$$P" `Q$$P" """ -- [email protected] mailing list
