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Jordan777

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Registered: 2008-11-30

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[SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

I'm using an onboard wireless card.  It's part of my ASUS M2N32-Sli Deluxe Motherboard.  It uses the realtek8187 driver.  My problem is, I can get the base packages installed from the cd just fine and I can connect to my network just fine because when I run the command

ping -c 3 www.google.com

it pings their sever just fine.  I run into a problem as soon as I try to continue with my install by running

pacman -Syu

It just yields messages saying either FTP server error (or something to that effect) and transient resolver error.  Does anyone know what seems to be going on?  This happens every time I've tried to set up Arch on my computer.

Last edited by Jordan777 (2008-12-01 03:53:04)

finferflu

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

Did you try to use a different mirror? And did you run

pacman -Syy

before trying to upgrade?

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Jordan777

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

I have tried using pretty much every one of the US mirrors.  Nothing different happens.  I don't know what -Syy is so I'll look that up real quick and see if I need to do that.

finferflu

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

From the pacman man page:

Passing two --refresh or -y flags will force a refresh of all package lists even if they are thought to be up to date.

Sometimes that does the trick.

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Jordan777

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

Oh ok.  Well I'll give that a try then.  I'll post back whether or not it works.

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

I'd also recommend a forced database refresh (pacman -Syy). If that still doesn't work  and you're sure that you've tried using different mirrors by uncommenting them and moving them to the top of the mirrorlist, try pinging different mirrors to make sure that they're reachable.

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Jordan777

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

Well pacman -Syy didn't do anything.  I just got the same transient resolver failure.

tomk

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

Try a http mirror, it could be a ftp issue.

Jordan777

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

Thanks guys!  Just changing my server settings to only http servers worked.  Now I just have to figure the rest of this out.

UCSDrake

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

did you have to go in and manually change each address or is there an easier way to do it?

Marnop

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Re: [SOLVED]pacman -Syu problem.

I have the same problem. I have tried all of the above and get the message
failed to synchronise any databases (Transient resolver failure)

Where do I go from here?
Start from scratch?