On 06/03/2010 05:43 AM, Rod wrote:

Hi, has anyone had this problem with trying to update the database for portage?

It was doing this a while ago, then it stopped (I don't know why) now its doing it again..

# emerge --sync
>>> Starting rsync with rsync://91.186.30.235/gentoo-portage...
>>> Checking server timestamp ...
timed out


If you don't specify a list of mirrors you want, portage will rotate randomly through
its list. You'll probably get better results if you pick a handful of servers that
are close to you and not overloaded. Emerge mirrorselect and see if you can get
better servers.

On Thursday 03 June 2010 19:55:29 walt wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 05:43 AM, Rod wrote:
> > Hi, has anyone had this problem with trying to update the database for
> > portage?
> >
> > It was doing this a while ago, then it stopped (I don't know why) now its
> > doing it again..
> >
> > # emerge --sync
> >
> > >>> Starting rsync with rsync://91.186.30.235/gentoo-portage...
> > >>> Checking server timestamp ...
> >
> > timed out
>
> If you don't specify a list of mirrors you want, portage will rotate
> randomly through its list. You'll probably get better results if you pick
> a handful of servers that are close to you and not overloaded. Emerge
> mirrorselect and see if you can get better servers.

I'm also getting this. Initially I thought that DNS could not resolve for
some ISP related reason, but it is more involved than that. It seems like a
$SYNC not a $GENTOO_MIRRORS problem.

I changed the rsync.europe.gentoo.org to rsync.de.gentoo.org and rsync worked.
So, could it be that something is wrong with the way the rsync rsync.europe
mirrors are meant to be rotated?
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Regards,
Mick

On Friday 04 June 2010 08:37:00 Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 03 June 2010 19:55:29 walt wrote:
> > On 06/03/2010 05:43 AM, Rod wrote:
> > > Hi, has anyone had this problem with trying to update the database
> > > for portage?
> > >
> > > It was doing this a while ago, then it stopped (I don't know why) now
> > > its doing it again..
> > >
> > > # emerge --sync
> > >
> > > >>> Starting rsync with rsync://91.186.30.235/gentoo-portage...
> > > >>> Checking server timestamp ...
> > >
> > > timed out
> >
> > If you don't specify a list of mirrors you want, portage will rotate
> > randomly through its list. You'll probably get better results if you
> > pick a handful of servers that are close to you and not overloaded.
> > Emerge mirrorselect and see if you can get better servers.
>
> I'm also getting this. Initially I thought that DNS could not resolve for
> some ISP related reason, but it is more involved than that. It seems like
> a $SYNC not a $GENTOO_MIRRORS problem.
>
> I changed the rsync.europe.gentoo.org to rsync.de.gentoo.org and rsync
> worked. So, could it be that something is wrong with the way the rsync
> rsync.europe mirrors are meant to be rotated?

Any progress with this guys? Should we be filling in a bug report?

--
Regards,
Mick