Name Resolution Failure

jlowell · Guru Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 389

I'm doing a stage 1 on another network box, have chrooted into the installation and have attempted to do an emerge sync. I'm getting a name resolution failure which the installation cd claims is temporary. I'm asked to keep trying. Anyone else experiencing this problem or have any idea how long it might take for the powers that be to fix it. I'd like to start the boot strap and get to bed.

jlowell

iamlarryboy · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 5:54 am Post subject: resolv.conf

did you remember to copy resolv.conf from /etc/ to /mnt/gentoo/etc ?

jlowell · Guru Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 389

Yes, quite specifically. If I can't get the bootstrap started in just a little while I think I'll clean off the partitions and try again tomorrow. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I first saw the complaint. I've been using Gentoo for almost a year now and have never once had a connection related problem.

jlowell

Dog · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 2

Same problem here.

Last night I sucessfully installed gentoo...but decided to re-install because of the way I set up my partitions.

Today, no joy.

I can ping rysnc.gentoo.org prior to chroot, but once I chroot, I get

rsync: gettaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Temporary failure in name resolution
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83)

It tries three times then gives up, and suggests emerge-webrsync. Web-rsynce doesn't fail,(says Fetching most recent packages) but finishs after about 10 seconds with no message.

I have definately copied resolve.conf to where it was suggested, and have confirmed this both prior to and after the chroot. Currently other computers on my lan can ping rsync.gentoo.org

Regards
Craig

Dog · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 2

Did a work around

entered the IP address for rsync.gentoo.org in /etc/hosts

Do an lookup on rsync.gentoo.org currently syncing. Interestingly, it seems to be syncing from a mirror once it found rsync.gentoo.org but it flashed by so fast, I couldn't be sure

jlowell · Guru Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 389

Dog,

Here's the solution!

derheld42
n00b

Joined: 30 Mar 2003
Posts: 12

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:39 am Post subject: emerge sync failed with stage1

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I'm attempting to install my 2nd Gentoo-kicks-butt system. After chrooting and following the install guide, I ran into this problem while doing emerge sync:

Code:

>>> starting rync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage...
rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Temporary failure in name resolution
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83)

In another VC I can ping yahoo.com... I'm using DHCP and it seems to be working... I even copied /sbin/ping into /mnt/gentoo and ran it in my chroot environment... I can't resolve hostnames, but I can ping my other systems...

I guess I don't quite know why the chroot environment is missing DNS... So... After figuring out an IP for rsync.gentoo.org, I did:

Code:

echo SYNC="rsync://130.207.108.134/gentoo-portage" >> /ect/make.conf
emerge sync

And it's syncing....

Back to top

It's working for me too! But we really shouldn't have to do something like this.

jlowell

jlowell · Guru Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 389

Dog,

Now I run

scripts/bootstrap.sh

and I can't connect. Host not found errors for several sites. I'm going to clean off the drive, go to bed and let this whole thing go until another time. They're just not ready at this point.

jlowell

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject:

jlowell · Guru Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 389

A further look at the forums would seem to indicate that a better solution to this problem than working with the ip address may be commenting out the search line in /etc/resolv.conf once inside the chroot environment. Having cleaned off the drive and started over, I can report success right through the bootstrap process whereas with the ip address solution I could not bootstrap. Someone will have to explain to me why it is that the search line in /etc/resolv.conf, as it comes, causes a problem at this point. I've installed stage 1 Gentoo on two other of my network's boxes and this problem never made itself known. Beats me!

jlowell

c_j_taylor98 · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Melb Australia

As usual the solution was down to the bleeding obvious. (Only took me 2 hours to work this out :oops:

)

Misspelling of the

/etc/resolv.conf

file. (Had it as /etc/resolve.conf instead.)

Hope this helps.

zorbital · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 5

Oh man, that one got me too. Thanks for the help. BTW, whose dumbass idea was it to shorten resolv.conf by dropping 1 freakin' letter?

amne · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject:

Moved from IG, please follow up to resolve problems if necessary.
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