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Ree

Member

Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 37

Annoying problem when downloading packages

The problem started some time ago. When downloading packages, pacman only downloads a few packages at a time and errors out on the remaining ones with the "Service not available, closing control connection" message. If I try again, it will download the next few packages and error out again. I can repeat this until all packages are downloaded and then install them successfully, but this is certainly annoying. The number of downloaded packages is not always constant, but about the same each time and it seems to differ from mirror to mirror (kernel.org ~8, tu-chemnitz.de ~3).

Unfortunately I cannot say exactly when it started happening, but I guess a few months ago. At first I thought it could be the mirror acting weird, but I don't think this is the case now. Before that, I had no problems at all.

My network works just fine in all other cases, so I doubt the problem is there.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Annoying problem when downloading packages

That's a ftp error message - try some http mirrors.

You could also try a different downloader eg. wget by using XferCommand in pacman.conf.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Annoying problem when downloading packages

that error is because of:  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20371

just use http over ftp and it would be fine

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Ree

Member

Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 37

Re: Annoying problem when downloading packages

Thank you.