Pacman mirror problems

what's up with pacman servers lately ? some mirrors are many weeks behind, others will drop my downloads after a couple seconds, some are just butt slow ..
it didnt use to be like that .. i've just spent the last 20 minutes trying to download wine 1.2 (11 megabytes), and after trying about 5 servers and resuming about 12 times (which is unreliable at best since they all seem to have different versions of packages) , i'm still at about 52%..
anything going on ? . .. ......
Last edited by pedepy (2010-07-18 17:25:52)

loafer wrote:
karol wrote:
anonymous_user wrote:Use reflector to get a good mirrorlist.
Unfortunately, reflector was re-written in bash and sth went not-quite-right. I often got _really_ slow mirrors even though I asked for the fastest ones.
When did this occur?
Ooops, I meant rankmirrors.
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.gi … ?id=v3.4.0
rankmirrors: rewrite using bash

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[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 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
if (( $UPDATE_CRON )); then
/usr/bin/pkgfile --update >/dev/null
fi
from package : pkgtools
which seems to be the main suspect.
Thanks fukawi2 to make me figure it out.

[SOLVED] Pacman sync problem

I'm recently having a problem trying to sync the package databases or any packages with pacman.
Here're some outputs: http://pastebin.ca/2108502
I've tried different mirrors but no avail. should I delete the dbs and then try ?
Last edited by debdj (2012-02-01 18:13:21)

falconindy wrote:Post the output of 'df -Th' please.
Here it is:
└$ df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs rootfs 9.3G 2.8G 6.1G 31% /
/dev devtmpfs 371M 0 371M 0% /dev
/run tmpfs 374M 208K 374M 1% /run
/dev/sda6 ext4 9.3G 2.8G 6.1G 31% /
shm tmpfs 374M 0 374M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 374M 8.0K 374M 1% /tmp
/dev/sda7 ext4 3.8G 2.4G 1.2G 67% /home
/dev/sda8 ext4 610M 610M 0 100% /var
/dev/sda9 ext4 1.2G 81M 1006M 8% /boot
/dev/sda10 fuseblk 59G 49G 11G 83% /media/softwares
/dev/sda11 fuseblk 59G 56G 3.2G 95% /media/games
/dev/sda12 fuseblk 59G 56G 3.4G 95% /media/E2
/dev/sda13 fuseblk 59G 56G 2.7G 96% /media/New_Free_Drive
/dev/sda18 fuseblk 115G 109G 5.8G 95% /media/Entertainment
/dev/sda5 fuseblk 15G 6.4G 8.3G 44% /media/books.docs.fun
I deleted the db files and sync went fine for once. After rebooting its the same problem. Though core and extra rep databases got synced, it was stuck at community @ 24%. and now the same is happening again.
Never had this problem defore after upgrading to pacman4.
EDIT: I have swap on sda16. shouldn't it show that as well?
Last edited by debdj (2012-02-01 17:01:05)

Pacman/mirror errors (solved)

For the last 4 days when I have tried to install anything with pacman (the mirror I use is "unixheads") I get errors saying it failed to retrieve files and no access. Prior to this I had very fast responses.
Last edited by viking (2008-09-01 05:39:49)

andrew123456 wrote:
i had the same problem, too, that's how i ended up here.
i fixed it by going into the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file and scrolling to the very bottom. there's an entry called #setup entry.
change the ftp to http in the unixheads url (and make sure all the other mirrors are still commented) that worked for me
I did as you suggested and then received this error when using pacman.
bash-3.2# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
if you're sure a package manager is not already
running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Thanks for your reply, not sure how to remove the /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Last edited by viking (2008-09-01 02:53:15)

[SOLVED] Fluxbox won't work and mirror problem

Hello all, I recently tried to make the switch to Arch again from Ubuntu. Ran into some trouble though. Obviously I was using the 64 bit version. It installed just fine, but once I booted into it I couldn't use pacman to install anything or even refresh. After a bit of playing I found the file where the mirrors hide. The one I set in installation was uncommented as it should be but not working so up above I uncommented the same one (ibilio) and that fixed that. Is that a normal problem? Anyhow no biggie so I moved on. I go for straight Fluxbox. So I installed xorg and fluxbox. But for the life of me I can not get it to boot to fluxbox. Keeps going to twm. I tried everything in the fluxbox guide from the Arch wiki to get it going with no luck. Finally gave up and went back to Ubuntu. Now I used the 32 bit a time or two on an old computer and fluxbox worked fine. Here like I say startx would bring up twm. And startfluxbox (think thats the right command) would get a cannot connect to xserver error. Any ideas? I sure would love to use Arch. Sorry I can't be more precise on how it went but I no longer have it installed. If someone thinks they can help me with this though I would love to try again. Thanks.
Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2008-02-16 07:32:36)

Ah, sorry, I should have specified that you add it to your ~/.xinitrc file, and you will most likely have to make then edit that file (as I did) yourself.
touch ~/.xinitrc
and then, with your text editor of choice add this line to that file
exec startfluxbox
and save. If that still doesn't work let me know
You will always get kicked back to the command line, as X cannot find any login manager, and you had no user-specified fallback file that it would look for instead, so it fell back finally on the system-wide fallback, which is TWM.
So you have to rely on writing your own way to start x, which is the ~/.xinitrc file. Otherwise it will always find twm.
If you really don't want twm, you can easily remove it (I don't have it installed at all) with a simple 'pacman -R xorg-twm'.
HTH
Last edited by wyvern (2008-02-15 18:45:07)

Can't install cups, mirror problems?

Hi, I am trying to install cups to be able to use my printer, but it seems there's some problem. I don't know if its because upgrades(Read on frontpage cups is upgraded to 1.2.10-1) or just a glitch. This happens both on swedish(ftp.gigabit.nu) mirror and on the main site(ftp.archlinux.org).
Should I just wait or download packages manually
[root@apc ~]# pacman -S cups
Targets: openslp-1.2.1-1 cups-1.2.9-1
Total Package Size: 2.9 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from current...
warning: failed to get filesize for cups-1.2.9-1.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading cups-1.2.9-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.gigabit.nu: 550 Failed to open file.
error: could not cwd to /pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/current/os/i686/: 550 Failed to change directory.
warning: failed to get filesize for cups-1.2.9-1.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading cups-1.2.9-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550 Failed to open file.

i'm having upgrade problems, too. i tried every server in the pacman files and it only gets a few Kb at a time before stalling out. the mirrors must be syncing, would be my guess. i think it might be related to what one of the devs (i think it was) mentioned a few days ago about people setting up mirrors for local networks who don't really need to and hogging all the resources.
>> just tried some of the european mirrors, they seem to be working a little better. it must be some greedy "me me me" americans taking up all the server bandwidth for their 2 PC networks.
Last edited by slackhack (2007-03-24 00:31:16)

Pacman-key problem

A new install from September CD iso. I went through install process but dumped at package install with unsigned or corrupted package error.
I burned another disc, same problem, restarted but installed Base only (I initially tried base & base-devel) to get a working box, and then updated this.
Rebooted and attempted to install base-devel, but still unsigned package error.
Next I used pacman -Sc to remove uninstalled packages (in case a corrupt package was in cache) but the same result. I changed mirror, but this did not resolve problem.
Next step was deleting gnupg & rebuilding (pacman-key --init, etc) but still unsigned package/corrupt error when I tried to install base-devel.
I installed each package in group individually, and found the error came with cloog, followed further and found dependency isl-0.10.1-1 was unsigned/corrupt package. Looking through forums, news and don't see anything regarding this so (giving that this iso has been around a week or two) I assume the problem is at my end somewhere.
Installed links & downloaded package, installed with pacman -U (this suggests that the package was not corrupt) and then installed cloog, followed by rest of base-devel.
What I don't understand is isl, cloog, gcc all have the same maintainer and therefore (presumably) signed by the same person. Why should I get an unsigned error for just one of the maintainers' packages?

Thanks for your thoughts, this was a fresh installation of the latest CD ISO. I downloaded/burned a second one with the same result.
Base-devel would not install as isl-0-10.1-1 was not securely signed (according to my installation).
I was able to download isl package and install, when 'pacman -S base-dev' worked, and system is now running fine. (just have to sort out this 'windows' printer now - thanks HP)

Pacman.conf problem [solved]

Hi im having a problem with yaourt, and packer and i cant also install any package form Aur for example:
packer -S opencascade
grep: /etc/pacman.conf: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
Aur Targets (1): opencascade
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
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i have the same problem with yaourt
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==> Making package: plank-bzr 820-1 (Fri Jun 7 13:06:26 ART 2013)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
==> ERROR: 'pacman' returned a fatal error (1):
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[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
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#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
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# uncommented to enable the repo.
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modedit: added code tags /Xyne
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grep: /etc/pacman.conf: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
This tells you that you have incorrectly configured permissions when you copied the file. Fix that with
chmod 644 /etc/pacman.conf
Also note that I have added code tags ([code]) to your post. Please use them in the future when you post command output or file contents.

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