On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:55 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello, I'm running an Gentoo distribution on my computer, lately I've > > started to get error messages that are rsync related. here is a log of > > the output: > > [...] > > > rsync: link_stat "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync/portage/180" failed: No such > > file or directory (2) > > [...] > > > this started about a few days ago when I've updated to rsync 2.6.9-r5, > > I've tried all other versions on my distribution's package bank. > > suspecting in a possible HW failure, I've ran fs checker on the relevant > > partitions (using reiserfs) which all came back ok, I'm kinda at lost > > here, no one could help me at gentoo's forums so I thought to try here. I > > hope you guys have a fresh perspective on the issue. my system is turion > > x2 with 1 gigs of ram, 100 GB and nvidia based motherboard. > > That error message means that one of the source files/directories rsync > was asked to copy did not exist. This most likely indicates a problem > with the Portage tool that is invoking rsync
while anything is possible, i highly doubt it. emerge-webrsync basically unpacks a tarball and then uses rsync to copy that src tree to the dest tree /usr/portage. > so it's odd that the > problem would appear when you upgraded rsync. Please provide the full > rsync command line that is being invoked and check whether the source > files referenced actually exist. If so, there may be an rsync issue we > can help with tar jxf snapshot-xxxxxxxx.tar.bz2 cd snapshot-xxxxxxxx rsync -av --progress --stats --delete --delete-after \ --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/packages' --exclude='/local' \ . /usr/portage -mike
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