[solved] yaourt: Curl 404

Question

Hello,
i am having a problem with yaourt. Which is a pitty, cause i like(d) it. What i am getting if i am trying to update, for example is:
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
curl error: Couldn't connect to server
curl error: Couldn't connect to server
I found a realated topic, which had to do with tor. I am not using tor, but i onced istalled it, but removed, since that thread was recomending that. It didnt help.
my mirrorlist is fine, and new. pacman is working, as it is supposed to be.
An update with yaourt "just" fails the AUR part of it.
does anyone of you have ideas, a hint about this. What output would you like to see?
Thanks a lot.
Last edited by einsiedlerkrebs (2012-10-05 14:08:24)

Answer 1

hi,
actually i do get similar errors using pacman:
$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for USERNAME:
:: Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 106k 100 106k 0 0 89551 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 161k
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1422k 100 1422k 0 0 618k 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 680k
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1785k 100 1785k 0 0 665k 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 722k
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 93632 100 93632 0 0 106k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 139k
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 32658 100 32658 0 0 112k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 224k
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
:: Starte komplette Systemaktualisierung...
Es gibt nichts zu tun
if i ping the URL from a packagebuild, i can observe that:
$ ping http://openwrt.org #<--- this is what i can find in the PKGBUILD of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57132
ping: unknown host http://openwrt.org
USERNAME@HOSTNAME ~ $ ping https://openwrt.org
ping: unknown host https://openwrt.org
USERNAME@HOSTNAME ~ $ ping openwrt.org
PING openwrt.org (78.24.191.177) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from openwrt.org (78.24.191.177): icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=67.0 ms
64 bytes from openwrt.org (78.24.191.177): icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=66.4 ms
^C
--- openwrt.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 2 received, 33% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 66.479/66.783/67.088/0.399 ms
USERNAME@HOSTNAME ~ $ ping http://www.google.de
ping: unknown host http://www.google.de
USERNAME@HOSTNAME ~ $ ping www.google.de
PING www.google.de (173.194.69.94) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.google.de (173.194.69.94): icmp_req=1 ttl=49 time=48.8 ms
64 bytes from www.google.de (173.194.69.94): icmp_req=2 ttl=49 time=49.4 ms
^C
--- www.google.de ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 48.832/49.157/49.483/0.393 ms
my mirrorlist is quite short since it is edited via reflector:
$ cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector
# With: /usr/bin/reflector -l 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# When: 2012-09-28 12:09:22 UTC
# From: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved: 2012-09-28 12:09:15 UTC
# Last Check: 2012-09-28T11:26:43.075Z UTC
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://www.laqee.unal.edu.co/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = rsync://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Is it normal, that ping without http:// works, but within not?
Thank you for helping.
eins