Error with package retrievals

Question

These error messages showed when I am intalling new softwares/upgrading today.
:: Retrieving packages from current...
Control socket read failed: Success
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Illegal seek
imlib-1.9.15-1           [################] 100%     535K    69.4K/s  00:00:07
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
Control socket read failed: Success
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
qiv-2.0-1                [################] 100%      26K    24.1K/s  00:00:01
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
installing imlib... done.
installing qiv... done.
I think the installation is complete but I just wonder what do those messages mean.[/b]

Answer 1

braincenter wrote:
I downloaded and installed the netselect program and ran the sortmirrors script. Now I am getting the following message:
pacman -Syu
config: line 5: syntax error
:: Synchronizing package databases...
failed to synchronize current
failed to synchronize extra
Any ideas how to fix?
The sortmirrors script has been broken for some time. Just reinstall pacman and move the .pacnew files in place under /etc/pacman.d/* or just fix the error on line 5. I made a python script for this a while back which creates a *.sorted file which you can specify to use in pacman.conf so you don't have to worry about it messing up any configs.
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys, re
def main():
if os.getuid() != 0:
print >>sys.stderr, 'You must be root user to run this program.'
sys.exit(1)
old_mirror = '/etc/pacman.d/extra'
if not os.path.isfile(old_mirror):
print >>sys.stderr, 'Old mirror ' + old_mirror + ' does not exist.'
sys.exit(1)
f = open(old_mirror, 'r')
old_lines = f.readlines()
f.close()
i=0
old_urls = []
old_valids = []
while i<len(old_lines):
if re.search('//', old_lines[i]):
old_urls.append(old_lines[i])
prefix = old_lines[i].split('//')
suffix = prefix[1].split('/')
old_valids.append(suffix[0])
i=i+1
#print('Testing ' + test_speed)
i=0
nums = []
for url in old_valids:
num_dots = 60 - int(len(url))
mirror_name = url + '.'*num_dots
sys.stdout.write(mirror_name),
sys.stdout.flush()
stdin, stdout, stderr = os.popen3('ping -c6 ' + url)
output = stdout.read()
error = stderr.read()
stdin.close()
stdout.close()
stderr.close()
if error != '':
print(error)
del(old_urls[i])
else:
sep = output.split('n')
last_line = sep[len(sep)-2]
ms = last_line.split('/')
if len(ms) < 5:
print 'unable to obtain speeds, back connection.'
i=i+1
continue
else:
print(ms[4] + 'ms')
nums.append(ms[4])
i=i+1
#print('Testing ' + test_speed)
del(old_valids)
sorted_mirrors = []
f_nums = []
for n in nums:
f_nums.append(float(n))
i=0
while i<len(f_nums):
mini=min(f_nums)
idx_num = f_nums.index(mini)
sorted_mirrors.append(old_urls[idx_num])
del(f_nums[idx_num])
del(old_urls[idx_num])
i=i+1
del(nums)
extra = '/etc/pacman.d/extra.sorted'
current = '/etc/pacman.d/current.sorted'
testing = '/etc/pacman.d/testing.sorted'
release = '/etc/pacman.d/release.sorted'
community = '/etc/pacman.d/community.sorted'
unstable = '/etc/pacman.d/unstable.sorted'
mirrors = [ extra, current, testing, release, community, unstable ]
mirrors_name = [ 'extra', 'current', 'testing', 'release', 'community', 'unstable' ]
i=0
while i<len(mirrors):
if os.path.isfile(mirrors[i]):
os.remove(mirrors[i])
f = open(mirrors[i], 'w')
f.write('#n[' + mirrors_name[i] + ']n#n')
for line in sorted_mirrors:
new_urls = line.replace('extra', mirrors_name[i])
f.write(new_urls)
f.close()
i=i+1
print('==> Append ".sorted" to each of your Include = lines in /etc/pacman.conf.')
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
main()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit(0)