Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:47:51 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > sent 2.71M bytes  received 218.79M bytes  56.02K bytes/sec
>
> HOW long?! 56KB/s shows something going badly wrong.

This sounds like it could be a network problem. Have you used
mirrorselect?
 
> > total size is 208.96M  speedup is 0.94
>
> I've never seen a speedup less than 1 before.
>
> >   * Manifest timestamp: 2020-01-12 18:38:55 UTC
> >   * Valid OpenPGP signature found:
> >   * - primary key: DCD05B71EAB94199527F44ACDB6B8C1F96D8BF6D
> >   * - subkey: E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250
> >   * - timestamp: 2020-01-12 18:38:55 UTC
> >   * Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine
> > ...!!! Manifest v>
> > Manifest mismatch for media-plugins/Manifest.gz
> >    __size__: expected: 48363, have: 48349
>
> That would indeed leave the tree safely in quarantine.

I wondered if the file was truncated from some sort of network problem,
until I checked my tree and saw that that file was 48349 bytes and
portage was really happy.
 
> > Inodes?  That's an interesting thought.  Not sure how I'd check that
> > ... I'll redirect the output into a file next time.
> >
> > What would I look for in the top(1) status lines (the lines at the top
> > before the process table?)?
>
> I'd want to see how much memory and swap were consumed and available;
> the processor load may offer you a clue too.
>
> > With emerge-webrsync do you mean webrsync or is there some additional
> > facility?
>
> According to the Wiki* the first thing you do after chrooting into the
> new system is to issue the command 'emerge-webrsync'. I suggest you try
> it.

I would definitely try emerge-webrsync as it downloads a consistent
snapshot of the system. You say you have no network or bandwidth
restrictions, but 56K/s says otherwise.


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Neil Bothwick

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