iMac G5 installation - emerge portage times out

mike_hore · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

Hi folks,

I'm a Gentoo newbie, even a Linux newbie, but I've successfully worked through the initial installation up to 6.b. So the initial installation networking is working fine, and I can do ping and links etc. (Thanks BTW for an excellent installation guide!)

Then I did emerge --sync, and everything ran normally. It told me a portage update was available, so as suggested I did emerge portage.

At that point everything timed out. Whatever mirror it tried to access, all attempts timed out. I cntrl-C cancelled, tried ping again, but it worked. Still emerge portage again timed out on everything. As suggested I've put my local mirrors first on the list.

I'm a bit lost at this point. Any suggestions? (Keep them simple, or I won't understand you!) If it helps, it seems to be resolving the mirror URLs to 1.0.0.0 which doesn't look right to me, but what would I know?

Cheers, Mike.
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ksp7498 · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:37 am Post subject:

I've typically found that specifying mirrors in /etc/make.conf for portage to use just causes more problems that it's worth. Try commenting out (putting a # in front of the line) the line in your make.conf where you specified which mirrors to use, and try it again.
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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:16 am Post subject:

Hi.

I think I've come across this issue before, when someone specified a proxy when it wasn't needed. Do you need to use a proxy? Have you set a proxy definition?
If that is not your problem, make sure your /etc/resolv.conf file is correct. Can you solve DNS names? What do you get if you do dig forums.gentoo.org?
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mike_hore · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

Hi,

No, I don't need a proxy and wouldn't even know how to set one up. This is just the CD installation running, though it's AFTER I've done chroot.

-- Mike.
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mike_hore · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

Whoops, I didn't answer all the questions.

> If that is not your problem, make sure your /etc/resolv.conf file is correct.
I thought it was, but I'll double-check.

>Can you solve DNS names?

I think so, since I did ping www.yahoo.com or something similar and it worked OK.

What do you get if you do dig forums.gentoo.org?

Don't know - what's dig? I'm a newbie. I'll give it a go when I get time.

-- Mike.
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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:33 am Post subject:

If you followed the Handbook, at step 3a are you sure you didn't export the proxy variables? Please run the following on a console:

mike_hore · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

>If you followed the Handbook, at step 3a are you sure you didn't export the proxy variables? Please run the following on a > console:

>Code:
># echo $http_proxy;
> # echo $ftp_proxy;

I'll have to reboot everything to give that a go, but what I did when I installed was that at step 3a everything "just worked", so I went directly to step 4 as directed. I certainly didn't do any proxy stuff (which as I said I know nothing about).

A little while ago I tried again and still got the timeouts. I cancelled, did ping www.airbus.com and got the expected replies.
I did dig ..... and it said dig was an unrecognized command.

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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:50 am Post subject:

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

You maybe have a firewall that's blocking certain ports?

mike_hore · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

OK - I have to hand-copy all this stuff since I don't have Gentoo up and running so have to boot back into OSX to do anything -- but hopefully I'll get it right enough.

>Well, the live-cd must not have dig. If you can ping, then you can solve DNS names.
>Post your /etc/make.conf file and the output of grep -i proxy /etc/wget/wgetrc.

make.conf:

# ...
# ...
CFLAGS="-mcpu=970 -mtarget=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://public.planet.mirror.com/pub/gentoo http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo/ http://mirror.isp.net.au/ftp/pub/gentoo"

(end of file)

Note that I got the timeouts both before I added the GENTOO_MIRRORS line and after. Also I pinged a couple of these sites and got a correct response.

The result of the grep: only commented-out lines.

#http_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023
#ftp_proxy = <same>
# if you do not want to use proxy at all, set this to off.
#use_proxy = on

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Firewall? This would cause the trouble, but I'm just a home user on my own phone line (i.e. no corporate firewall or anything like that). I do have a firewall running in my OSX setup, but of course it wouldn't be active when I'm trying to set up Gentoo.

Cheers, Mike.
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