Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found.Well, in large part you can't. OK, maybe mirrorselect could be fixed to cull some of the dead mirrors-- if they are in fact dead, rather than it being a node problem where those mirrors happen to be unreachable for you at this time (but on Monday, they'll be fine)-- but other than that, there's nothing much you can do about "host not found" other than choose different mirrors.
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.ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gzDownloading
--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 ?
Similarly, 404 errors mean the file is not on the server, and there's nothing you can do about that either, other than wait for the server to sync up. I notice that db at least seems to have a mirror restrict to the source URI, insofar as I suspect that sleepycat.com is the project's site, rather than a Gentoo mirror. And if that is the case (you must download the source from the project, rather than from a Gentoo mirror), then there's really nothing we can "fix"-- if the files aren't on the project servers, there's nothing anyone can do but wait till they get there. Of course, if the 404 is because the files have *moved*, you could always track them down, and submit a bug to correct the ebuild.
But these are really issues for another day. Get the system installed using the manual downloads, and then you can clean up your mirror situation in somewhat more comfort ;-) .
Holly
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