[gentoo-user] no properly formatted md5 line when doing emerge-webrsync

[gentoo-user] no properly formatted md5 line when doing emerge-webrsync

[Xi Shen]

Hi,

I am doing a fresh new gentoo x64 install. After I chroot to my new
gentoo system and do emerge-webrsync, I got the following error
message:

no properly formatted md5 line

I check the mirror sites and they all have the .md5sum file. I
remember I met this kind of problem before, and I just tried a few
more time and the issue was gone. But this time, I tried almost a
whole day without luck.


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Re: [gentoo-user] no properly formatted md5 line when doing emerge-webrsync

[Mick]

2009/8/25 Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am doing a fresh new gentoo x64 install. After I chroot to my new
> gentoo system and do emerge-webrsync, I got the following error
> message:
>
> no properly formatted md5 line
>
> I check the mirror sites and they all have the .md5sum file. I
> remember I met this kind of problem before, and I just tried a few
> more time and the issue was gone. But this time, I tried almost a
> whole day without luck.

Sounds like bad download(s).  It has happened a few times in the past
when I was using an ISP who was throttling traffic like mad (very much
a common UK ISP sport these days).  Packets were being dropped
continuously.

If it is an ISP network probelm you may want to try websync instead of
rsync and at a quiet time and see if there is a difference.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] no properly formatted md5 line when doing emerge-webrsync

[Xi Shen]

i am working in a corporation network, very fast and stable.

i think it is because the portage in the official livecd is too old
that it cannot work with new portage snapshot.

here is my trick to resolve this problem:

after untar the portage-latest to the new system, and chroot, i do
emerge -u portage to update the portage separately, then i do
emerge-webrsync, then i got everything works ;)


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Mick<michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/25 Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am doing a fresh new gentoo x64 install. After I chroot to my new
>> gentoo system and do emerge-webrsync, I got the following error
>> message:
>>
>> no properly formatted md5 line
>>
>> I check the mirror sites and they all have the .md5sum file. I
>> remember I met this kind of problem before, and I just tried a few
>> more time and the issue was gone. But this time, I tried almost a
>> whole day without luck.
>
> Sounds like bad download(s).  It has happened a few times in the past
> when I was using an ISP who was throttling traffic like mad (very much
> a common UK ISP sport these days).  Packets were being dropped
> continuously.
>
> If it is an ISP network probelm you may want to try websync instead of
> rsync and at a quiet time and see if there is a difference.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
>



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David Shen

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