Doing emerge sync I get always: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342) My network connection seems to be working fine. So here go more details about this issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Become root 2.emerge sync Actual Results: # emerge sync !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: default-ppc-2004.1 >>> starting rsync with rsync://64.5.62.17/gentoo-portage... >>> checking server timestamp ... After a while I get: xfce-extra/xfwm4-themes/files/ rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1832818 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342) >>> retry ... And this happens 3 times more at different points: deleting metadata/cache/dev-libs/ace-5.2 rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1831585 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342) >>> retry ... >>> Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.74/gentoo-portage >>> checking server timestamp ... Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-admins@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz , 2176MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation may be added to a temporary ban list. MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.2 receiving file list ... 1 file to consider Number of files: 1 Number of files transferred: 0 Total file size: 32 bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 32 Total bytes written: 206 Total bytes read: 464 wrote 206 bytes read 464 bytes 268.00 bytes/sec total size is 32 speedup is 0.05 Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-admins@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz , 2176MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation may be added to a temporary ban list. MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.2 receiving file list ... 27000 files... receiving file list ... 82231 files to consider dev-libs/ace/ dev-libs/ace/files/ metadata/ metadata/cache/dev-libs/ metadata/cache/xfce-base/ metadata/cache/xfce-extra/ rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1832322 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342) And it ends with: !!! Rsync has not successfully finished. It is recommended that you keep !!! trying or that you use the 'emerge-webrsync' option if you are unable !!! to use rsync due to firewall or other restrictions. This should be a !!! temporary problem unless complications exist with your network !!! (and possibly your system's filesystem) configuration. Expected Results: Update as always have done. # emerge info !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: default-ppc-2004.1 Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.3-benh2)================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-benh2 ppc 7455, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mtune=7450" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/lib/pbbuttons /var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d alsa altivec apm ati berkdb bonobo cdr cups dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gnome-libs gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib jpeg kde libwww mitshm motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mule ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppc python qt radeon readline sdl slang ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb vim-with-x xface xmms xv"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50072 ***
