Pacman mirror list issue

hello
i was facing a problem with corrupted files when i updated arch with "pacman -Syu" command then i updated "pacman" and i saw there are two files
/etc/pacman.d/
mirrorlist mirrorlist.pacnew
so system is using mirrorlist, should i delete the other fle name mirrorlist.pacnew or replace it mirrorlist?

Never confuse pacnew, pacsave and pacorig.
As Allan said, read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … save_Files !
Last edited by arkham (2009-07-25 09:55:22)

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Couldn't pacman distribute mirror lists?

couldn't pacman distribute mirror lists during updating?
- first step: fetch new mirror list.
- second step: update now.
Furthermore, if pacman.conf could include an option the way like:
REGION=EUROPE
pacman could prefer to adress mirrors in europe.
Just an idea.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5885

Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

When i update mirrors from the home page.. all the mirrors are commented out.. I save it as mirrorlist
then run the reflector command..
does it ONLY rank the number of mirrors i ask for in the United States.. or mirrors right down the list that ive copied and pasted in mirror list??
the reason I ask.. cause i opened up the mirrorlist that got ranked by reflector and 2 of them are from Brazil... and not even in the US list..
should I just copy the US mirrors, then run reflector??
am i doing something wrong??
i dont want to get strange, incompatable packages... I hope I'm asking this correctly..
and when i used to update pacman -Syyu.. it happened in seconds..now it takes almost a min (not that this is alot of time, but its slower then it ever was) and it's only updating via 5 mirrors from the reflector command..
so should i only copy the US mirrors into mirrorlist then run reflector or copy entire mirror list then run reflector..
whats the best way?
dont want to screw up my system
thanks
Last edited by binskipy2u (2010-07-21 18:24:31)

I'm not sure if the app / service is working OK atm. I'd say it's not your fault.
> dont want to screw up my system
I don't thnk you can crash&burn it this way. It's just a list of mirrors.
Last edited by karol (2010-07-21 15:40:21)

[SOLVED] Update Mirror List

Hi all
I was reading a post earlier and it mentioned updating the mirror list at http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/. I generated the list okay, but can someone enlighten me as to what to do with it please?
Thanks
Rich
Last edited by RichAustin (2011-08-12 18:41:52)

You could eat it...
Seriously, copy that newly generated list to either a temp text file or directly into the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file itself. This also assumes you'll delete the current contents of the mirrorlist file before pasting your new list into it.
After that, just do your pacman -Syu to get the new packages.

Stupid me deleted the pacman mirrors... [SOLVED]

I know this sounds incredibly stupid, but I did. I tried sorting the mirror list and now I can't seem to download certain packages from extra, and I'd like to go back to the original mirror list. I just can't seem to figure out which package the mirror list is contained in.
If someone can just point me in the right direction, that would be great
At least I managed to resist the urge to try uninstalling pacman and reinstalling it
(no, I'm really not an idiot, I just do really stupid things some times)
Thanks,
Ethilien

Here's my /etc/pacman.d/extra mirror list if it's what you're looking for :
# The Extra Repository
[extra]
# North America
#Server = ftp://ftp.nethat.com/pub/linux/archlinux/extra/os/i686
#Server = ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
#Server = ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
# Europe
Server = http://archlinux.antesis.org/extra/os/i686
#Server = ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.de/pub/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/mirror/ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/site/linux-sunsite/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.parrswood.net/Mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.kegep.tuc.gr/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.estpak.ee/pub/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://saule.mintis.lt/pub/linux/extra/os/i686
# Australia
#Server = http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ibiblio/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/i686
# Asia
#Server = ftp://cle.linux.org.tw/pub/ArchLinux/extra/os/i686

Belnet pacman mirror

Hello,
I have an internet connection of a university that works as follows:
You can download only 4GB per month off the internet with your account. But since Belnet is our backbone and contains only educational things like linux distributions, you may download from belnet without it costing any gigabytes.
My next pacman full system upgrade, is 900MB. I'd like to use belnet to upgrade archlinux to be able to use this 900MB for other things.
But, the belnet archlinux mirror, at http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/archlinux.o … y/os/i686/, doesn't work for me anymore. If I go to that URL, it keeps loading forever, but does nothing.
Could you try in a browser if that URL works for you?
Can someone of Archlinux fix this, or is it completely up to the Belnet administrators?
If anyone can help, thank you very much!

I have had lots of ups and downs with the belnet mirror as well. A lot of packages are out of date. Even though http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html says it is up-to-date (at present anyhow).
And here's a package that seems out of sync in a lot of mirrors : sshfs
Its been updated two days ago (to 2.2-2) :
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50
But pacman still tries to install version 2.2-1 :
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'sshfs-2.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'sshfs-2.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
AS you can see it's also out-of-sync on the main mirror...
Another weird thing : the following mirror :
http://mirror.leaseweb.com/software/arc … a/os/i686/
lists the package correctly (2.2-2), but this mirror is not even listed in the Mirror List from the wiki...
PS: is it possible to tell pacman to install a specific version of a package ?
Last edited by isaie (2009-10-05 13:55:09)

Distribution List issue

Hello,
Since our upgrade to GW 8 users can no longer administer Distribution Lists. I have created a new test list and made myself administrator to verify this. I can add the members to the list but when I save and close they are not added to the list. We are running 8.02 with most current build (91941)on agents and clients. Do I need to run some kind of PO repair?
Thanks in advance.

Hmm, weird although I'm have a weird dist list issue also in that some are disappearing from users' address books. Sometimes they'll show back up if I refresh the address book from the system book but often not. I'll submit a new post on that one; it's possible they're related.
>>> csupers<[email protected]> 1/24/2011 7:06 AM >>>
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David Hickok;2066477 Wrote:
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> mode, they need to use to address book applet. Otherwise, you'll
> experience the problem you described.
>
> >>> csupers<[email protected]> 12/1/2010 8:06 AM >>>
>
> Hello,
>
> Since our upgrade to GW 8 users can no longer administer Distribution
> Lists. I have created a new test list and made myself administrator to
> verify this. I can add the members to the list but when I save and
> close
> they are not added to the list. We are running 8.02 with most current
> build (91941)on agents and clients. Do I need to run some kind of PO
> repair?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> csupers
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Pacman mirror for India

All the pacman mirrors seems to be slow from my location, chennai in southern India. The only reason I am sticking with ubuntu, is that they have got a mirror 4 kms away from my home in IIT and i get 60K download speed on my 512kbps line. I tried a few of them and none of them includeing the main server give more than 30k. This should'nt be a problem, except that my ISP has a download limit and I can download for free only for 11pm to 9am, which is usually used for downloading other stuff. So how do I find which server will be fastest for me. I tried to ping the servers and compare, but I soon discovered that the ping really does'nt influence download speed. Often a server with higher ping seems to be faster than some with lower ping.
Last edited by unixguru (2007-06-27 05:35:55)

i use the apokryph server from the topic of #archlinux.de which is pretty up to date and i get good speed there aswell (about 650k). the downside is, that it doesn't include the community repo
edit: switched to hosteurope.de too. just as fast, more up to date than apokryph and it has community too /me happy
Last edited by baze (2007-04-07 15:51:50)

[Solved] Unknown bandwidth usage coming from pacman mirrors

Each 1 or 2 days, there is a brief unknown bandwidth usage coming my
pacman mirrors, downloading about 15-20mb. I would like to know what is
responsible for this behavior.
During the bandwidth usage, I did the following commands to get some hints:
$ tshark -i wlan0
18.601379 192.75.96.254 -> [ my_ip ] TCP 1506 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU
18.604131 192.75.96.254 -> [ my_ip ] TCP 1506 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
18.604139 [ my_ip ] -> 192.75.96.254 TCP 66 41989 > http [ACK] Seq=173 Ack=3281761 Win=239040 Len=0 TSval=14001135 TSecr=3310908095
$ sudo netstat -apntu
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 [ my_ip ]:41989 192.75.96.254:80 ESTABLISHED 5331/python3
where 192.75.96.254 seems related to the domain name of my first mirror in the mirrorlist:
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/
Last edited by ramboman (2012-03-04 22:30:02)

In cron.daily, there is a "pkgfile" :
#!/bin/bash
. /etc/pkgtools/pkgfile.conf
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which seems to be the main suspect.
Thanks fukawi2 to make me figure it out.

RDweb 2012 excel jump list issue for win 7

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I tried to clear recent jump list but nothing is happen.
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Thanks.

Hi Sunil,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
For Excel jump list issue you can try below suggestion as it may get your issue resolved (Quoted from below articles).
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2. Type or copy and paste the following into the address bar:
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3. Identify files that are comparatively larger in size than the rest of the file, such as files that have file size of 1 MB or more.
Delete the abnormal file.
Tip: If you do not want to retain the Jump Lists’ recent items history on all applications, just delete all the automaticDestinations-ms files in the folder.
4.The recent items functionality on Jump Lists will be restored. The recent items on the Jump Lists will be re-added as the program is been used. However, do note that the solution does not restore the previously pinned items. So user will have to pin new
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Pacbak.sh, backup pacman file lists..

So i'm not sure if someone has done anything like this before.. but I was reading the wiki and just thought I'd hack something together real quick.. This script will let you backup your current pacman installed list, and restore it if you decide to get your box the way you want it.. then all of a sudden it crashes and burns to the ground xD.. Anywho.. I know I could have done a better job but.. i'm lazy. Comments are so very welcome!!!
#!/bin/bash
# Set some random cool looking things :-/
ESC_SEQ="\x1b["
COL_RESET=$ESC_SEQ"39;49;00m"
COL_RED=$ESC_SEQ"31;01m"
COL_CYAN=$ESC_SEQ"36;01m"
# Checking if root
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
echo -e $COL_RED"This script must be run as root"$COL_RESET
exit 1
fi
case "$1" in
backup)
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET "Sending the backup command to pacman.."
pacman -Qqe | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)" > pacbak.bak
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET" Done!"
restore)
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET "First lets update pacman"
pacman -Syy
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET "Okay, now lets restore our backed up list.."
sleep 2
pacman -S $(cat pacbak.bak)
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET "Done!"
info)
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET "Simple script to backup and restore your pacman list of installed programs."
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET "Created by: Timothy Hoffmeyer <thoffmeyer>"
echo -e $COL_CYAN">>"$COL_RESET "Contact: <[email protected]>"
echo "usage: $0 {backup|restore|info}"
esac
exit 0

Dieter@be wrote:
thoffmeyer wrote:#!/bin/bash
pacman -Qqe | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)" > pacbak.bak
Why are you filtering out those packages?
I personally want to backup explicitly installed packages, no matter where they are from.
Tip: host your own binary repo and when you build packages from AUR (or others from source) put them there.
I was setting up a repo @ my sever for packages.. so.. I'm working on it.. Thanks ghost1227.. arch-blocking like that.. lol.

Pacman mirrors timingout

Hey forum,
I am having weird issues with pacman that I haven't been able to track down. when I issue
pacman -S <some package>
sometimes it will say error: failed retrieving file '<file name>' from mirrors <mirror name> : resolving timed out after 10520.
I have ran some pings while downloading and it only spikes up to about 195 ms. I am using wireless and have not tried using the ethernet NIC.
lspci -k show the following for my wireless
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$ lspci -k -s 03:00.0
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-N 7260
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
libkmod: kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf line 3: ignoring bad line starting with 'options'
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$
Side note that error is from the following which I got from the ALSA wiki page (But my sound does work so not sure why the error)
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd_hda_intel index=1
options snd_mia index=0
options snd_slots=snd_hda_intel
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$
Laptop is a Asus Q550L. Other distributions that have been on here have not had any issues. I also doubled checked my mirrors and they were fully reliable according to the mirrorlist that I used from arch wiki.
Can someone point me in a direction? also what log should I refer too? I am used to /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg but I don't see either of them under var.

Mirrorlist
[root@TuxAsus ~]# cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
## American Mirrors
Server = http://mirrors.xmission.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://dfw.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://ord.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
[root@TuxAsus ~]#
pacman.conf
[root@TuxAsus ~]# cat /etc/pacman.conf
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta = 0.7
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#TotalDownload
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required
# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.
#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[multilib]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
[root@TuxAsus ~]#
I will look at the link in the meantime and see what I can get from it.

[SOLVED] pacman mirror problems

It seems that my preferred mirror (mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) is down, so I commented it out of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. However, pacman still insists on trying to download from this mirror EVERY TIME it tries to install or update a package
So each package takes about 15 seconds to say:
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-4.5.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca: Connection timed out
before trying another mirror.
Is there an option to make sure pacman is using the mirrors specified in the mirrorlist, or to not use a certain mirror? I can't find anything in the man page or wiki.
thanks.
Last edited by Chimera (2010-04-25 19:10:36)

herrvideman wrote:
I know this thread is marked solved but I've just run into the same problem and was wondering how you fixed this issue?
When I run pacman -Syu I get:
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca : Connection timed out
So I guess this is the same problem. It's weird though because I'm still able to search for packages without the connection timing out. I did check the mirrors status and it still seems to be up so I don't think that's an issue.
Any help would be appreciated, sorry in advance if I've done something wrong by posting in a thread marked solved.
Shot in the dark but I had a similar problem. The way I fixed it (and I'm still not sure why it worked) but I manually entered my DNS servers into my network manager applet. I don't know if you use Gnome, KDE, or whatever (I use KDE), but that worked for some reason. Maybe you could try it.
Thanks for the response, yes I'm using Gnome and networkmanager applet 0.8. I'm not too sure what you mean by entering the DNS server in the network manager applet. Are you suggesting that I enter my ip address (the one assigned to me by my ISP) into the BSSID or MAC address field? Those are the only two fields that I see when I select my connection and click edit in the network manager applet, unless I go to the security settings or one of the IPv tabs.
I was able to update my system after uncommenting the kernel.org mirror, so maybe it is the mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Too bad mirrors don't have a blog or something to post news/status updates on it could prove helpful when problems like this occur. Then again that would mean more maintenance for them and I can understand why it might be considered too much work. I guess https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus works good enough.

Pacman sync time issues when behind router

It didn't used to be so, but now whenever try a "pacman -Syu", it takes two or three minutes to complete(it used to take less than 10 seconds). I'm not sure if it's related, but I recently began using a router(Ativa54G) to connect to the internet, so maybe there's something I need to change in/etc/hosts to reflect this?

It's the actual syncing of the lists that's taking a while(which I'm assuming an accelerator won't help).
EDIT: Okay, apparently the issue was that the ArchLinux ftp site was listed first in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. Also, I've narrowed down the rest of the problem to the US kdemod4 repos...

Pacman and list of mirriors and modem/router change.

Hi all
I am wondering how pacman decides which mirror it will use to update.
My problem is that since swapping out my modem/router pacman has been unable to update. I have just changed /etc/pacman.d/mirrors to point to a different mirror in an effort to correct the problem but it seems to be tied to the mirror it originally had - mirrors.uk2.net. Having said that it is not using the new mirror either - distrib-coffee.ispl.jussieu.fr.
Also is pacman somehow tied to one router or what ip the router assigns to the machine, and cannot adjust to new ip settings?
TIA
david
Last edited by blackone (2011-09-28 12:40:57)

It probably is mirrorlist - just a typo on my part.
A dns issue? I am not sure. I have looked in /etc/resolv.conf and that shows the new router ip. I dont seem to be able to do ifconfig as whatever that is associated with is not installed.
But it does seem to have fixated on the uk2.mirrors.net for pacman.
I shall do some more digging.

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