[Solved] Arch (0.7.1) and vmware - pacman network trouble?

Question

I've installed Arch 0.7.1 using VMware on Windows XP to test it (only the base system so far, mostly due to my problem: I can ping hosts, even arch mirrors, but when I do an 'pacman -Sy' it just stalls at 0% downloading/syncing 'current' package database.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

cactus wrote:Do you have a firewall that is disallowing ftp traffic (active or passive ftp)?
Do you have winderz firewall running?
Are you using a vmware 'bridged' network connection, or a vmware 'nat' network connection?
- No Windows Firewall, but my router is also a firewall, but it allows "all" outbound.
- I'm using bridged network. I can ping the vmware host (windows xp) from arch inside vmware (and internet sites such as ftp.heanet.ie (one of the mirrors) and www.vg.no etc.
I've commented out every repo in /etc/pacman.d/current except for ftp.heanet.ie (which I can ping from arch), but it just stalls. I'm on a 2Mbit SDSL connection btw.
If I just let it stall (if that's what it does) for a while, it restarts or something. At least the
current [ ] 0% 0K 0.0K/s 00:00:00
line repeats, at 0%.
I also disabled extra (community and testing was already disabled) in pacman.conf and tried a 'pacman -S lftp'. It stalls just like with sync-refresh, trying to download expat package (which was a dependency for lftp).
I had no problem downloading the file from the same location from windows (ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlin … pkg.tar.gz).