Instead of installing over the top of your current tree, move it out of the way first
check that portage related files in /etc are ok (make.conf, esp make.profile symlink, ...) Use root, and not the portage user if you are doing that once your at this level, it gets down to checking basics like firewalls (it seems to be a connection error) etc. Can you manually use rsync to retrieve something from one of the servers? - pick a file in portage, delete/move it and then manually fetch it. BillK On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 07:49, Ian Truelsen wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:11:42 +0800 > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE > > > Thank you for the suggestion, however I still get the same error and am > still unable to sync. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list