emerge fails at md5 verification [SOLVED]

trawler · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 70

I've installed gentoo on a vmware machine. Installation went fine, but I can't seem to be able to install gentoo-sources or genkernel:

nokia · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Norway

have you tried to delete the files in /usr/portage/distfiles/.
After you have done that, try to resync.

trawler · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 70

yeah, i already tried doing that - delete the files, and re-synced twice (yesterday and today) with same result...

Sadako · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:53 am Post subject:

I just checked here, and the md5 checksums for both the e2fsprogs and linux source tarballs match what your portage was expecting,
implying that either they are being (perhaps very minorly) corrupted during download, or the md5sum pogram used is screwing up somehow.

The problem is not with the portage tree.

Can you try running md5sum on the tarballs by hand, and then manually fetch the tarballs (just the e2fsprogs one as the other is so large) and md5sum it too?

Are these the only two giving problems?
(Try emerge -pf foo, where foo is a package you know you have already downloaded successfully).
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gsgleason · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 31

run memtest86.

I read another post where a user was getting intermittent md5sum failures after downloading, and it was a bad ram stick.

trawler · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 70

This is probably a little late, but better later than never

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I found out the gateway through which my internet was connected had a file scanning mechanism which changed the downloaded files md5sum's...
After switching to a different gateway, all went well.