Am 14.03.2010 00:42, schrieb pk:
> On 2010-03-13 20:15, Jarry wrote:
> 
>> obelix ~ # emerge --sync
>>>>> Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage...
>>>>> Checking server timestamp ...
>> timed out
>> rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at
>> rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.6]
>>>>> Retrying...
> 
> It's the server, not rsync that's at fault. rsync is merely telling you
> that it cannot connect and is retrying to connect. Just choose another
> mirror (emerge mirrorselect if you haven't already and then do
> 'mirrorselect -i' - of course without the '').
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Peter K
> 

It can also happen if you are one a slow or lossy connection or have
other network problems. I, for example, experienced similar problems
when reverse DNS lookups did not work.

In this case, you can try to set a longer timeout. For this, add
PORTAGE_RSYNC_INITIAL_TIMEOUT=60
or something similar to /etc/make.conf

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp