[gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

[gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own
mirrors, I wonder what to do about it.
Message follows:

* Running emerge --sync
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are seeing this message, you are not in
the right place.  Please check our website
http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper
hostnames for connection.  This host no longer
contains data.


@ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage'
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
** April 21, 2009
... And so on

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own
> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it.
> Message follows:
>
> * Running emerge --sync
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>   NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> If you are seeing this message, you are not in
> the right place.  Please check our website
> http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper
> hostnames for connection.  This host no longer
> contains data.
>
>
> @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage'
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5]
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ** April 21, 2009
> ... And so on

If you need a mirror run by a known person that you can blame when things go 
south, you *could* use mine:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/" 
SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage"

That poor machine gets lonely down here in South Africa, doesn't get to speak 
to foreigners much, and my Network Operations guys keep pestering me to find 
ways to stress out the peering links to that other competing ISP (I think they 
just want to bloat the graphs to justify buying new expensive Cisco toys - not 
that there's anything wrong in that :-)

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own
>> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it.
>> Message follows:
>>
>> * Running emerge --sync
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>   NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> If you are seeing this message, you are not in
>> the right place.  Please check our website
>> http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper
>> hostnames for connection.  This host no longer
>> contains data.
>>
>>
>> @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage'
>> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
>> main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5]
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ** April 21, 2009
>> ... And so on
>
> If you need a mirror run by a known person that you can blame when things go
> south, you *could* use mine:
>
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/"
> SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage"
>
> That poor machine gets lonely down here in South Africa, doesn't get to speak
> to foreigners much, and my Network Operations guys keep pestering me to find
> ways to stress out the peering links to that other competing ISP (I think they
> just want to bloat the graphs to justify buying new expensive Cisco toys - not
> that there's anything wrong in that :-)

Interesting offer, but I found "mirrorselect" on my own in the
meantime, and first in its list is a site
that I know is a 2-hour drive away (my grad school alma mater), and I
like to keep global load down...
not that I have anything against Cisco.

Thnaks for the offer, though.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

[Mark Shields]

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own
> >> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it.
> >> Message follows:
> >>
> >> * Running emerge --sync
> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >>   NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >>
> >> If you are seeing this message, you are not in
> >> the right place.  Please check our website
> >> http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for the proper
> >> hostnames for connection.  This host no longer
> >> contains data.
> >>
> >>
> >> @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage'
> >> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> >> main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5]
> >>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ** April 21, 2009
> >> ... And so on
> >
> > If you need a mirror run by a known person that you can blame when things
> go
> > south, you *could* use mine:
> >
> > GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/gentoo.org/"
> > SYNC="rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage"
> >
> > That poor machine gets lonely down here in South Africa, doesn't get to
> speak
> > to foreigners much, and my Network Operations guys keep pestering me to
> find
> > ways to stress out the peering links to that other competing ISP (I think
> they
> > just want to bloat the graphs to justify buying new expensive Cisco toys
> - not
> > that there's anything wrong in that :-)
>
> Interesting offer, but I found "mirrorselect" on my own in the
> meantime, and first in its list is a site
> that I know is a 2-hour drive away (my grad school alma mater), and I
> like to keep global load down...
> not that I have anything against Cisco.
>
> Thnaks for the offer, though.
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
>
Mirrorselect is certainly your friend, and described in the Gentoo Handbook.
 If you haven't already, I would use it to select a rsync mirror, too.

-- 
- Mark Shields

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Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own
> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it.

I use the meta-mirrors, as listed in and suggested by the commented
parts of make.conf:

SYNC is the server used by rsync to retrieve a localized rsync mirror
rotation. This allows you to select servers that are geographically
close to you, yet still distribute the load over a number of servers.
Please do not single out specific rsync mirrors. Doing so places undue
stress on particular mirrors.  Instead you may use one of the
following continent specific rotations:

Default:       "rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
North America: "rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
South America: "rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
Europe:        "rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
Asia:          "rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
Australia:     "rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

[Aaron Clark]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own
>> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it.
> 
> I use the meta-mirrors, as listed in and suggested by the commented
> parts of make.conf:
> 
> SYNC is the server used by rsync to retrieve a localized rsync mirror
> rotation. This allows you to select servers that are geographically
> close to you, yet still distribute the load over a number of servers.
> Please do not single out specific rsync mirrors. Doing so places undue
> stress on particular mirrors.  Instead you may use one of the
> following continent specific rotations:
> 
> Default:       "rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> North America: "rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> South America: "rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> Europe:        "rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> Asia:          "rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> Australia:     "rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

I got the same error this morning as described by the OP and I use North 
America meta-mirror for my SYNC target.  Most likely, the change at 
Arctic Networks has not been communicated to the mirror folks at infra, 
or they haven't yet gotten around to updating the meta-mirror.

Aaron