Weird Pacman behavior [Solved]

The weirdest thing is happening. I reformatted and installed Duke. When I run pacman -Syu, everything goes really slow. Not the download speed, that is fast, but it pauses for about 30 seconds after every event. So it will download an update, then pause 30 seconds, then download the next update. It does this even after installing the newest pacman.
I thought maybe it was a specific problem with Duke, so I reinstalled Voodoo, which worked fine for me before. However, pacman still does the pauses on a fresh install with Voodoo. I have not changed any hardware and found nothing about this on the forums.
Any suggestions or things I can look into?
Thanks.
Last edited by matt_man22 (2007-06-17 16:51:56)

mips wrote:maybe it's just waiting for a (dead) server reply, so it moves on only after a timeout. check your mirrors
That's what I thought, so I changed to the archlinux mirror to be sure. Here is the debug output:
Targets: kernel-headers-2.6.21.1-1 glibc-2.6-2 attr-2.4.38-1 acl-2.2.44-1
binutils-2.17-4 cpio-2.8-1 dialog-1.1_20070514-2 dmapi-2.2.8-1
ed-0.5-3 filesystem-0.8-9 fakeroot-1.7.1-2 file-4.21-1
findutils-4.2.31-1 gcc-4.2.0-2 hwdetect-0.8-8 klibc-udev-112-1
mkinitcpio-0.5.15-1 kernel26-2.6.21.5-1 less-403-1 lvm2-2.02.26-1
man-1.6e-2 man-pages-2.54-1 mdadm-2.6.2-1 popt-1.10.6-1
tar-1.17-1 udev-112-1 wpa_supplicant-0.5.8-1 xfsprogs-2.8.21-1
xfsdump-2.2.45-1
Total Package Size: 56.82 MB
:: Retrieving packages from current...
debug: file path: '/current/os/i686/kernel-headers-2.6.21.1-1.pkg.tar.gz'
debug: using 'kernel-headers' for download progress
debug: connected to ftp.archlinux.org successfully
debug: file path: '/current/os/i686/glibc-2.6-2.pkg.tar.gz'
debug: using 'glibc' for download progress
debug: unregistering database 'local'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'local'
debug: closing database 'local'
debug: removing DB current, 3 remaining...
debug: unregistering database 'current'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'current'
debug: closing database 'current'
debug: removing DB extra, 2 remaining...
debug: unregistering database 'extra'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'extra'
debug: closing database 'extra'
debug: removing DB community, 1 remaining...
debug: unregistering database 'community'
debug: freeing package cache for repository 'community'
debug: closing database 'community'
I don't see anything wrong, but it seems to be holding up on the network connection for some reason. This is a new install, so pretty much everything is stock.

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Good Morning Community,
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//-----------------Begin cut n pasted text
[dcbdbis@Curly-Sr ~]$ sudo pacman -S wine
error: 'wine': could not find or read package
[dcbdbis@Curly-Sr ~]$
//----------------- End cut n pasted text
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//----------------Begin cut n pasted text
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//---------------- End cut n pasted text
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//----------------Begin cut n pasted text
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community winefish 1.3.3-9
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//---------------- End cut n pasted text
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Last edited by dcbdbis (2011-01-03 22:47:51)

Leonid.I wrote:
Allan wrote:You need multlib : http://www.archlinux.org/news/true-mult … ux-x86_64/
I would rather do a virtual machine...
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To the OP, please mark the thread [solved] by editing your first post title.

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@ tony5429
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http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34669
the arch developmer tomk wrote
tomk wrote:If you're not in a hurry, wait for the -bad package upgrade. Otherwise, I'd suggest -Syf for the -good package, followed by -Su for everything else.
cheers
JaDa

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I got leopard for Christmas and on the first day of the install my icons on the right side of the dock- i guess the stacks for applications and downloads icons look weird. It's not a combination of all the icons in the stack like someone else wrote, it is a weird green, white, red rectangular shaped image with weird black and grey squiggles going through the middle. Also-I'm not sure how to describe it but what used to be a clear line I guess to separate the stacks stuff with the other icons on my dock it's next to about this mac icon on my dock has turned into a weird pink rectangle with a really small picture of the weird red, green, and white rectangle on top. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My husband is a windows guy and after me bragging about how much better mac is, I don't want him to know that I'm already having problems with leopard

No, this is not "normal behavior." The problem is that it is not consistent, either, so it is hard to tell what is going on. It may happen after using some full screen programs, but I am not sure. I am not able to reproduce the issue, myself. It just happens from time to time.
The icons are not changing after they are used. The ones in the download folder will usually have their normal appearance, the dmg file or a pdf file with its "preview" icon or whatever. Then, for some reason, I will notice some of the icons have become blocky and pixilated, not resembling anything, usually almost a solid color.
Again, the way to get them to change back is to remove the downloads folder from the doc and return it. Then all the icons return to their normal view.

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