Maybe not a direct solution, but does a web-sync work ?
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:09, Matthew Closson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran:
>
> emerge --sync
> It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out.
> I have let it run for a bit and try multiple servers and it just keeps
> timing out after the motd regardless of which server it goes to... here is
> some output:
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Script started on Mon Jan 2 16:46:45 2006
> sh-3.00# emerge --sync
> ]2;Started emerge on: Jan 02, 2006 16:46:54]2; *** emerge sync]2; ===
> sync]2;>>> starting rsync with rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage>>>
> starting rsync with rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage...
>
> >>> checking server timestamp ...
>
> Welcome to owl.gentoo.org
>
> Server Address : 64.127.121.98
> Contact Name : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hardware : 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz, 1024MB RAM
>
>
> Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
> than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
> may be added to a temporary ban list.
>
>
> MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.3
>
> io timeout after 180 seconds - exiting
> rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(109)
>
> >>> retry ...
>
> ]2;>>> Starting retry 1 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage
>
> >>> Starting retry 1 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage
> >>> checking server timestamp ...
>
> Welcome to raven.gentoo.org
>
> Server Address : 134.68.220.73
> Contact Name : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2176MB RAM
>
>
> Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
> than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
> may be added to a temporary ban list.
>
>
> MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.3
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and thats it. I reinstalled a recent portage snapshot and also made sure
> I don't have any config file updates pending with etc-update and a manual
> search in etc. The rest of portage/emerge continues to work fine. I can
> continue to emerge/install packages without problems, just not --sync.
> Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks,
>
> -Matt-
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