Pacman -Syyu timeouts... [Solved]

I can ping out to my mirrors, but Pacman isn't following his pellets properly... (Ha, see what I did there?)
Anyway, I keep watching HTTP and FTP alike time-out...
Wired Connection on i386 system...
Any suggestions?
Last edited by Xlaits (2013-01-28 00:53:13)

flipper T wrote:
Are you using "pure" arch, or a derivative; cinnarch, manjaro etc ?
Have you read the arch wiki for pacman ?
I'm using Pure. I'll also put some time into the wiki right now...
jasonwryan wrote:If you have tried changing mirrors, then pacman has a debug option to print more helpful error messages...
And said command would be...? [edit]
Running Pacman -Syuv --debug now...
Last edited by Xlaits (2013-01-27 08:58:23)

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Last edited by doug piston (2012-07-27 04:52:08)

Sure and I apologize for the delay and not includung this information to begin with.
┌─[jarvis][watson][~]
└──╼ sudo pacman -Syyu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 107.7 KiB 146K/s 00:01 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
core.sig 4.2 KiB 44.9K/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
extra 1408.6 KiB 547K/s 00:03 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
extra.sig 4.2 KiB 44.6K/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
community 1765.5 KiB 762K/s 00:02 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
community.sig 4.2 KiB 42.5K/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
multilib 90.6 KiB 148K/s 00:01 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
multilib.sig 4.2 KiB 45.6K/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
┌─[jarvis][watson][~]
└──╼ 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
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#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
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#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
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#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
ILoveCandy
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# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Optional TrustedOnly
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# Server = ServerName
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# uncommented to enable the repo.
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[solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

Hi forums,
I use arch x86_64, yaourt and the testing and multilib repositories.
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Thanks in advance
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Last edited by xiliyi (2012-01-05 09:49:23)

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Last edited by tony5429 (2007-06-29 22:38:16)

@ tony5429
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Last edited by blackout23 (2012-03-07 15:24:24)

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[testing]
should now be
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Last edited by karol (2012-03-07 15:05:14)

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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.
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Last edited by viking (2008-09-01 02:53:15)

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======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x400b7b10]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x89)[0x400b91a9]
pacman[0x80604ee]
pacman[0x805b731]
pacman[0x805bdeb]
pacman[0x80523c6]
pacman[0x8055335]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8)[0x400697c8]
pacman[0x804a0a1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0806b000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 2083461 /usr/bin/pacman
0806b000-0806c000 rw-p 00023000 03:43 2083461 /usr/bin/pacman
0806c000-0877f000 rw-p 0806c000 00:00 0 [heap]
40000000-4001a000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226508 /lib/ld-2.5.so
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4001b000-4001c000 rw-p 0001a000 03:43 5226508 /lib/ld-2.5.so
4001c000-4001f000 rw-p 4001c000 00:00 0
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40027000-40029000 rw-p 00007000 03:43 5226552 /lib/libnss_files-2.5.so
40029000-4002d000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226549 /lib/libnss_dns-2.5.so
4002d000-4002f000 rw-p 00003000 03:43 5226549 /lib/libnss_dns-2.5.so
4002f000-4003d000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226548 /lib/libresolv-2.5.so
4003d000-4003f000 rw-p 0000d000 03:43 5226548 /lib/libresolv-2.5.so
4003f000-40042000 rw-p 4003f000 00:00 0
40042000-40053000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 2065997 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
40053000-40054000 rw-p 00011000 03:43 2065997 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
40054000-40178000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226513 /lib/libc-2.5.so
40178000-40179000 r--p 00124000 03:43 5226513 /lib/libc-2.5.so
40179000-4017b000 rw-p 00125000 03:43 5226513 /lib/libc-2.5.so
4017b000-40184000 rw-p 4017b000 00:00 0
401a9000-401b3000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 2065391 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
401b3000-401b4000 rw-p 00009000 03:43 2065391 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
40200000-40221000 rw-p 40200000 00:00 0
40221000-40300000 ---p 40221000 00:00 0
bfb19000-bfb2e000 rw-p bfb19000 00:00 0 [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
Aborted
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Last edited by Skipper_the_eye_child (2012-01-26 19:24:00)

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