problems with emerging

PinkPanther · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

i got 2 comps
1 athlon xp with windows xp and net connection (via adsl,dlink dsl 300G)
1 p1 with gentoo

the xp shares the net to the p1
i can connect from the p1 to the net via http(links) and ftp
but when i emerge it connects to the server and does nothing

ehudokai · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:25 am Post subject: several things to try

try and see if you can wget the file from the server listed directly.

If that doesn't work, try connecting yourself directly to the internet and see if it works then... if so it's your windows microcrap software messing up the routing.
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thompsonmike · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:31 am Post subject:

Me too, I get it straight from Linux though,

I think it is the server thats it is using, ilibido or something....

I only get it on emerge world, or emerge binutils...

Any way to ignore a server?
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ehudokai · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:04 am Post subject:

remove it from your GENTOO_MIRRORS var in /etc/make.conf
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thompsonmike · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:23 am Post subject:

It still flakes whatever server I use, it even flakes when I download manually. Have to wait and see if it clears up, maybe a problem with the files, and new packages need to filter through or something....
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ehudokai · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:17 am Post subject:

There is a method in make.conf to select a different download program.
try adjusting those settings.
I can download fine from the server listed in the initial post, so it might be a bad wget installation.. dunno

Good luck
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thompsonmike · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:01 am Post subject:

PinkPanther, where in the world are you? May be a geographical problem.

I have download problems when I try and download the said file, even in Windows, using broswer, FTP and file programs..
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ehudokai · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject:

That's baffling. In a fix you could always do a google search for the file your looking for and just put it in your distfiles directory. That will allow you to install it, of course assuming the md5's correlate.

For those who don't know distfiles resides in /usr/portage/distfiles

Unless you've changed it in /etc/make.conf. On my system I put it in my /var/temp with all the rest of my build environment.
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thompsonmike · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject:

Try this:

mirrorselect -a -50

To get maximum amount of servers in your make.conf

emerge sync

To Update

and then do your emerge.

works here. (Ish)
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thompsonmike · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:28 am Post subject:

I am still getting freezes using emerge, I have just done a complete re-install of Gentoo and it still does it.

I love Gentoo, but this is core functionality and a reason why I chose Gentoo, if I cant update, I cant use.....

Dont Make me go back to RedHat!!! Put the RH CD Down......PUT IT DOWN............NOoooooooooooooooooo..

Oh dear.

Does any have any ideas at all before I go completly insane??????
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thompsonmike · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:14 am Post subject:

ibiblio.org (USA) cannot be resolved, thats the route cause of the problem I am having with emerge.

just use any server apart from ibiblio.org
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