--- Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
I did not have an rsync mirror setting in my make.conf
file. I added it, but still a no go. Btw, in the very
beginning, after installing gentoo, I was able to sync
just fine and could do it properly for about a week or
so. Then this problem reared it's ugly head.
