--- Final Bandicoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm running the Gentoo (2008
> version)
> on my system for 2-3 weeks now and I've been having
> this problem recently.
> For the last week or so, I haven't been able to run
> emerge --sync properly.
> Everytime I try to run it, I get something like:
> >>> Starting rsync with
> rsync://134.68.220.97/gentoo-portage...
> >>> Checking server timestamp ...
> timed out
> rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP
> (code
> 20) at rsync.c(276) [receiver=2.6.9]
> >>> Retrying...
>
> Even after retrying all 3 times, still no luck.
> I am aware that if you sync to often, you will be
> temporarily banned from doing it, but as far as I
> know, I didn't sync too often at all prior to this
> (the most I did it was twice in one day and that too
> I
> only did that one day).
>
> So please, if anyone has any idea what's going on,
> please let me know. Thanks.
Hi everyone. I found a way to bypass this problem,
but...according to the gentoo guys, it should only be
a *temporary* workaround. If anyone knows how to fix
my problem, I'd be happy, but until then, for all
those who face the same problem as me, run the
following command:
emerge-websync -v
