Paul Varner schreef: >> What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync >> (latest stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the >> servers in the European pool, but... all of them? >> >> Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default >> is rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I don't see any documentation that >> indicates that that has changed or become deprecated or invalid, >> but maybe it has. I don't particularly want to switch permanently >> to the US pool, as that just seems to make more vectors of >> instability for everybody, and is not really the point of having >> continental mirror pools anyway. >> >> Anybody got a clue as to what's happening and what, if anything, I >> can do to fix it? > > > You didn't state which version of rsync, but the versions below 2.6.4 > do have timeout issues. See the following bugs: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83254 > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 >
Thanks for the tip, Paul-- that could definitely be the issue: net-misc/rsync Available versions: 2.6.0-r5 2.6.0-r6 ~2.6.3-r1 ~2.6.4 ~2.6.5 ~2.6.6 Installed: 2.6.0-r6 For the time being, I've changed my sync mirror pool to the national one (rather than the continental one), which seems like it's OK (but it's early days yet, and I haven't tested extensively). Is it worth going unstable with rsync for this? meaning, will using an unstable rsync cause me any "real" problems, even as it (hopefully) solves this (relatively minor) annoyance? Thanks for the links; I'll look at the bugs later. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list