Pacman fails to synchronise.

This happened yesterday after i decided to install arch on my desktop(its been on my laptop for a month or two now)
i cannot sync with any server at all on either my laptop or my desktop both with the same error messages.
the error:
:: Synchronising package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'testing.db.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : Not logged in
error: failed to synchronise testing: Not logged in
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : Not logged in
error: failed to synchronise core: Not logged in
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : Not logged in
error: failed to synchronise extra: Not logged in
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : Not logged in
error: failed to synchronise community: Not logged in
error: failed retrieving file 'unstable.db.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : Not logged in
error: failed to synchronise unstable: Not logged in
error: failed to synchronise any databases
Checking for package upgrades...
no upgrades found
this is from my laptop as i have not been able to install a DE on my PC because of this error.
i have no idea what the cause is asit happens on the older pacman in the PC(the version on the install CD) and the newest pacman on my laptop.
both share the same connection via a wireless router. only the laptop is on the wireless.

you tried different repositories, not different servers. If you want the normal "stable" packages, you should only use core, extra and community.
About the failures, I think the belnet ftp server seems to be down as i experience similar problems, when trying to connect to it with a web browser it asks for a password, the same occured ealier this year (I think there also was a thread about it here).
So to solve your problems, just choose a different server by editing the files for each repo in /etc/pacman.d/. Just put the one you want to use on top of the list.

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Hi
I've just installed arch 2008.06 in VMWare Workstation 6.04 on Vista Business x64. The setup all went fine and i am now logged into my system, but Pacman refuses to connect to anything. i have tried Bridged networking and NAT to no avail. whenever i run 'pacman -Syy' i get the message
"error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g.,file not found, no access)"
followed by the same message for each mirror in my mirrorlist, and then again for 'extra.db.tar.gz' and 'community.db.tar.gz', and then 'failed to synchronise any databases' at the end.
I have tried pinging google, as well as several of the arch mirrors and they all work fine. wget also seems to work fine, it's just pacman that's not working.
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Last edited by henrypootel (2008-09-12 01:53:56)

That's what i thought too so i switched off the Vista firewall and still no luck. I am behind a hardware firewall here at work, but it shouldn't be blocking FTP traffic. i use FTP in windows all the time.
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Trilby wrote:
OK, this was a very small step in the right direction: you posted the error ... but was that the actual error? Did it really say 'file A' from mirror A, or is that a shorthand you are using?
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[Solved] Pacman fails to get packages http 403 or 404 error

Hi,
I'm not sure if I should raise this as a bug or not, or indeed if I am doing something fundamentally wrong...
Pacman tells me there are updates to do, but:
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
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community is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
multilib is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
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resolving dependencies...
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any ideas?
[edited to add solved tag to title]
Last edited by flangemonkey (2015-04-01 15:29:18)

Hi flangemonkey,
that mirror was not synced yet when you did the upgrade (the last sync ended today at 10:54 UTC, about 17 mitues after you posted on this borad). It should be ok now, just try to redo the update. Next time, you may want to check first the status of the mirrors https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status
edit: typo
Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-04-01 11:06:10)

[SOLVED]Pacman fails to update

Hi,
It's been a while, so I hope this issue can be resolved here, and I'll be on my best behaviour. I tried an update (system-wide) with
pacman -Syu
it came back with :
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
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Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
What do I do next?
Thanks for helping out
Thor
Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2011-10-26 09:38:53)

Will do, tnx.
New-year resolution: read the news on-site more often.
Marking this as solved
Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2011-10-26 09:38:33)

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[SOLVED]pacman fails to install mtpaint

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[SOLVED] Pacman fails to refresh/update.

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# /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
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl %u > %o
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#NoPassiveFtp
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
# 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
# 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.
# Testing is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
# two 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]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
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[Solved] Pacman fails to satisfied java-runtime dependency on upgrade

Hi. So I haven't been able to upgrade yesterday or today because of this bug. I couldn't figure out how to solve it on my own.
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extra 1389.5 KiB 187K/s 00:07 [##################################################################################################] 100%
community 1549.8 KiB 191K/s 00:08 [##################################################################################################] 100%
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URL : http://icedtea.classpath.org
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Last edited by Coward (2012-03-08 00:30:57)

mira wrote:
Karol's advice did not worked for me, so I did this:
pacman -Rdd jre7-openjdk-headless
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and then the update worked as it should. Hope that helps somebody.
Not sure what was the issue in your case, but I did say "Try to ignore the conflicts and see if it works out." and by that I meant the '-dd' switch.
Now I see I should have been explicit about it as my comment doesn't make it clear at all.

[SOLVED] pacman fails on a package that should've been ignored anyway

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In this case failure to upgrade the kernel is preventing the nVidia driver from being updated also, which is fine, but I don't understand why it then says it can't install 'nvidia' because 'nvidia-utils' is the wrong version - I thought 'nvidia' was going to be skipped? Why is it trying to install it anyway?
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warning: linux: ignoring package upgrade (3.3.8-1 => 3.4.2-2)
warning: linux-headers: ignoring package upgrade (3.3.8-1 => 3.4.2-2)
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warning: cannot resolve "linux>=3.4", a dependency of "nvidia"
warning: ignoring package linux-3.4.2-2
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Last edited by Malvineous (2012-06-17 05:23:21)

Ohhh, so you're saying it ignored nvidia, but tried to upgrade nvidia-utils. nvidia-utils requires nvidia, but nvidia needs a specific version of nvidia-utils which would be broken by upgrading nvidia-utils, so it refuses to upgrade nvidia-utils because of the existing dependency. Right.
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[SOLVED] Pacman failed retrieving file 'core.db' after removing KDE

Hey, I had to remove KDE and foolishly used the -Rsc flag. Now, trying to update yields:
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Last edited by Greenstuff (2015-02-08 20:49:24)

Sorry, will do!
The debug printed a lot of the first errors, so I cut them. This is what pacman --Syu --debug show:
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debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://artfiles.org/archlinux.org/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
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debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://linux.cs.nctu.edu.tw/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/ArchLinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: config: new section '(null)'
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
debug: url: [url]http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db[/url]
debug: maxsize: 26214400
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debug: using time condition: 1422991262
debug: opened tempfile for download: /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db.part (wb)
EDIT: SOLVED!
Ok, so I did indeed disable ipv6 as I promised, but turns out I put in the GRUB kernel line "ipv6.disable_ipv6=1". Upon re-reading the wiki, turns out this means ipv6 is disabled but tunnels with ipv6 may be opened by programs. I changed to "ipv6.disable=1" and pacman updates away! I hope others will find this usefull. Be careful!
Last edited by Greenstuff (2015-02-08 20:52:45)

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I am trying to run a pacman -Syu and get the following error.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
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mir91 wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:
scap wrote:You did warn me. I guess I am more or less upset that this could even occur at all. Not really sure what the circumstances are that cause this but it seems to me that if this happens to me a lot it would be unacceptable. I shouldn't have to wait hours or days to install or upgrade an OS and expect that it works. Maybe I am asking for something unreasonable but I don't think that I am. I needed the updates to get my work done. Now instead of doing work I am sitting here waiting for a package to get pushed out...
Yes, it is quite unacceptable. Those lazy developers are clearly just wasting your time by not devoting enough of their spare time to pushing out packages immediately.
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I have no sympathy for someone who shows up here saying there machine has not been updated in "a long time" and then complains that packages are not available when they want them. That's not breakage, that's just PEBKAC.

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I'm trying to downgrade a kernel using packages in the cache.
When i try to do
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I get
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error: failed to commit transaction (transaction commit attempt when database is not locked)
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Codewalker wrote:
I'm trying to downgrade a kernel using packages in the cache.
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I get
debug: returning error 26 from alpm_trans_commit : transaction commit attempt when database is not locked
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction commit attempt when database is not locked)
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do not use that -p flag.

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Arch install in a virtual box (Oracle VB). Post-install, synced packages OK by issuing pacman -Syy.
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eth0 interface OK
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:: The following packages should be upgraded first:
pacman
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resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (11): linux-api-headers-3.3.2-1 glibc-2.15-10 libarchive-3.0.4-1
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Welcome to the boards ai69. Please search before posting, this issue has been covered extensively here.
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