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Tim Ames wrote: |
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> I'm running it looks like linux-2.6.7-gentoo-r14 |
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> I haven't been able to get online for quite a while now. When I originally |
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> compiled I was on satellite and had a network connection that enabled me to |
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> download just about anything I wanted. I didn't have ppp compiled in the |
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> kernel and I kept trying to get wvdial emerged or ppp working in the |
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> machine to use a serial modem for dialup as that is all I can afford right |
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> now, and probably all I can get in the location I'm living in. |
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> The problems started trying to emerge wvdial, I downloaded manually off of |
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> one of the mirrors and put the files in |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles and then tried to emerge them on the machine |
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> I started getting md5 errors trying to emerge the files that I had |
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> downloaded and burned to a cd using windows xp. |
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> I kept trying, deleted the files, put the machine finally online using |
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> another machine on dialup and setting internet connection sharing and got |
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> the 64bit gentoo machine online that way. I tried doing and emerge sync |
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> several times and still kept coming up with |
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> this message. |
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> Digest verification Failed: |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles/any downloaded .tar.gz file here |
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> Reason: failed on MD5 verification |
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> I kept looking through the forums tried all the suggestions, ie ... |
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> changing mirrors, re downloading, rebuilding the digest |
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> then I downloaded the webrsync file and rewrote the whole portage tree. I |
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> still get the MD5 errors. |
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> When I go to emerge a file that is in /usr/portage/distfiles I get this error |
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> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format |
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> tar: Child returned status 1 |
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> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors |
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> when I try to gunzip the file I get |
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> !!!ERROR: dev-libs/xplc-0.3.11 failed |
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> !!!Function unpack, Line 375, Exitcode 2 |
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> !!!failure unpacking ... yada yada |
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> I'm at the point where I'm ready to wipe everything out and start over again. |
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> Can this be fixed?? |
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> thanks in advance |
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> Tim |
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> I posted a message in here last week about digest verification failing |
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> and also in the forums and did not receive a reply. What is happening |
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> is that after updating portage when I tried to emerge files and they |
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> would download and you could see them get larger than the amount that |
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> was written in the first lookup of the file. The file would go past 100 |
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> percent and then sometime later it would stop and it would come up with |
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> a digest verification error. |
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> So I managed to get the machine online with just a modem after a while |
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> and the same pattern happened. So I started out completely from scratch |
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> and I just compiled 2005.0. Everything worked out until I tried to |
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> emerge coldplug from a genkernel. I got the digest verification error |
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> again. I emerge sync ed again and now everthing I try to emerge gets |
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> the digest verification error. |
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> I guess I'm going to have to give up and go to another distro. |
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> I'm running an sk8v asus motherboard with an fx-51 chip. |
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> Does any of this ring a bell with anyone? |
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> tia |
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> Tim |
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Errors with both md5 and gzip? Can you use a separate computer to determine if the problem is with md5/gzip programs or corruption of the distfiles themselves? |
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Zac |
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