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soloport

Member

Registered: 2005-03-01

Posts: 442

Pacman FTP Errors & Timeouts

Been seeing the following occur for a couple of days, on separate servers, on separate domains (i.e. offices accross town from each other):

[root@localhost ~]# pacman -S sudo

Targets: sudo-1.6.8-6

Total Package Size:   0.1 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]

:: Retrieving packages from current...
error: anonymous login failed              <==
connect: Connection timed out              <==
error: cannot connect to ftp.archlinux.de  <==
 sudo-1.6.8-6             [#############################################################] 100%     103K    43.8K/s  00:00:02

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
installing sudo... done.

My [ current ] starts out:

Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.de/pub/archlinux/current/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/current/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.antesis.org/current/os/i686

(i.e. is the default)

I've searched the forums and tweaked /etc/pacman.conf on advice from the results, etc. -- in vain.  As you can see, no show-stoppers, just annoying -- as each update takes forever, due to timeout lengths, etc.

Anyone else having the same fun?

scarecrow

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Pacman FTP Errors & Timeouts

Something is wrong currently with ftp.archlinux.org
Most other repos are working OK.

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iom

Member

From: Slovenia

Registered: 2005-04-18

Posts: 35

Re: Pacman FTP Errors & Timeouts

why don't you just change the server-order in /etc/pacman.d/current? it is not wise to have ftp.archlinux.org as the first server, anyway, what are mirrors for.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Pacman FTP Errors & Timeouts

Lately, the ftp.archlinux.org is overloaded : http://www.archlinux.org/~jason/newslet … html#forum  Try using another mirror.  It will reduce the load and you'll probably get a faster connection.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Pacman FTP Errors & Timeouts

I switched all of them to have *.archlinux.org last. Only one I didn't do, was [staging] from the pacman.conf file.. I do not know what mirrors are available to use.

Here's one mirror: http://archlinux.antesis.org/tur/staging/ . You can probably get the other ones by replacing http://archlinux.antesis.org/ by <mirror>