[gentoo-user] Anybody having trouble with eix-remote?

[gentoo-user] Anybody having trouble with eix-remote?

[Mark Knecht]

I haven't been able to run eix-remote for a few days. I thought it
might be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408567 but
the maintainer says it's not, and indeed, the remote cache file that
gets downloaded here appears to be more or less empty. (46 bytes...)

Just want to see if others are experiencing the similar problems. I've
seen this on a couple of machines.

Thanks,
Mark

c2stable ~ # eix-remote -q update
--2012-03-20 07:26:36--
http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/eix_cache/eix-caches.tbz2
Resolving dev.gentooexperimental.org... 91.191.147.225
Connecting to dev.gentooexperimental.org|91.191.147.225|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46 [application/octet-stream]
Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.
--2012-03-20 07:26:36--
http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/eix_cache/eix-caches.tbz2
Reusing existing connection to dev.gentooexperimental.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46 [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `eix-caches.tbz2'

100%[===========================================================================>]
46          --.-K/s   in 0s

2012-03-20 07:26:36 (11.0 MB/s) - `eix-caches.tbz2' saved [46/46]

 * Unpacking data...
chmod: cannot access `*': No such file or directory
Can't open the database file /tmp/eix-remote.9aCQKKXc/1/* for reading
(mode = 'rb')
Did you forget to create it with 'eix-update'?
problems arose with cachefile *
 * Calling eix-update...
 * could not read all eix cachefiles of /var/cache/eix/remote.tar.bz2

Probably your eix cachefile was *not* updated successfully.
Unless the above messages suggest another cause or you specified a
wrong filename, the most likely cause of this is that the server uses
another eix version than you or produced broken data. Please check whether
EIX_REMOTEARCHIVE is a valid *.tar.bz2 archive containing eix cachefiles
(you can download it using fetch).
If this is not the case (but was freshly downloaded), please report a bug.
Note that the archive is *not* broken if only the cachefile format versions
differ: In that case only report a bug if the eix cachefile format versions
in the downloaded file are *older* than that of the most current ~x86 eix
version in the portage tree (but first retry after several days before
reporting such a bug to give the server maintainers a chance to upgrade
after a version bump of eix).
Conversely, if the downloaded versions are even newer than that supported by
your eix, you will have to upgrade to the most current ~x86 version of eix
to use eix-remote: This inconvenience cannot be avoided and is not a bug!
c2stable ~ # ls -al /var/cache/eix
total 10476
drwxrwxr-x  2 portage portage    4096 Mar 17 10:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root    root       4096 Mar 14 13:45 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root          0 Mar 14 13:45 .keep_app-portage_eix-0
-rw-r--r--  1 portage portage 5347242 Mar 20 07:26 portage.eix
-rw-r--r--  1 portage portage 5338997 Mar 19 09:46 previous.eix
-rw-r--r--  1 portage portage      46 Mar 20 07:26 remote.tar.bz2
c2stable ~ #

[gentoo-user] Re: Anybody having trouble with eix-remote?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't been able to run eix-remote for a few days. I thought it
> might be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408567 but
> the maintainer says it's not, and indeed, the remote cache file that
> gets downloaded here appears to be more or less empty. (46 bytes...)
>
> Just want to see if others are experiencing the similar problems. I've
> seen this on a couple of machines.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Apparently there were some changes in eix in the permissions area that
caused problems with (I guess) the generation of this file. The
maintainer tells me the eix problems are fixed. I haven't seen a
change in the file size yet and so far eix-remote continues to fetch a
file with nothing in it. I suspect it will likely start working later
today.

Cheers,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody having trouble with eix-remote?

[Thanasis]

on 03/20/2012 04:28 PM Mark Knecht wrote the following:
> I haven't been able to run eix-remote for a few days. I thought it
> might be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408567 but
> the maintainer says it's not, and indeed, the remote cache file that
> gets downloaded here appears to be more or less empty. (46 bytes...)
> 
> Just want to see if others are experiencing the similar problems. I've
> seen this on a couple of machines.


Yea, me too, and I was about to ask the same thing.
Let's see if it starts working soon, as the maintainer said.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody having trouble with eix-remote?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> wrote:
> on 03/20/2012 04:28 PM Mark Knecht wrote the following:
>> I haven't been able to run eix-remote for a few days. I thought it
>> might be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408567 but
>> the maintainer says it's not, and indeed, the remote cache file that
>> gets downloaded here appears to be more or less empty. (46 bytes...)
>>
>> Just want to see if others are experiencing the similar problems. I've
>> seen this on a couple of machines.
>
>
> Yea, me too, and I was about to ask the same thing.
> Let's see if it starts working soon, as the maintainer said.
>

Thanks for verifying that.

As of this morning the remote file is once again being created:

http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/eix_cache

You should see something there with a size around 1.5M. eix-remote -q
update is currently downloading and doing its work once again.

Cheers,
Mark