On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Final Bandicoot 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 Billy: Do you have a rsync mirror setting in /etc/make.conf ? It should look like SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" >From a practical perspective, i'd suggest running emerge --sync once at the time of Gentoo installation. Not withstanding arguments about security, patches, you will have a more manageable system else you may find post 'emerge --sync' that many packages need updating. Let me know how it goes. thanks Saifi.
