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omnivert

Member

Registered: 2012-01-24

Posts: 2

Pacman 3.6 failing to update to 4 (and possibly related issues)

Issue: Pacman isn't able to find a variety of things it should be able to find.  This includes libreoffice, icedtea-web, and updates to seemingly anything from extra.

My mirrors all appear to be fine, I checked them today.  In fact I can manually find the files that I want by navigating to my mirrors via a browser.  Thus I feel pretty confident that I have the right filenames.  I believe that connecting to the mirrors is not a problem, since commenting out these mirrors results in the expected error messages.  Also, for a test I tried installing some random packages, including a JRE and pacman itself.  No issues or errors.  However when I try to install libreoffice I'm told that the package does not exist.  I'm starting to wonder if something has been wrong with extra for a pretty long time, because

pacman -Syu

runs without errors, but never finds anything to update or upgrade.  I thought maybe the programs I had just didn't receive updates very often, but now I'm starting to wonder.  Also, pacman seems unaware of pacman 4's existence (it's at 3.6), leading me to wonder if there are other core updates that I am not receiving. 

relevant lines from mirrors file:

255 Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch
256 Server = http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch
257 #Server = ftp://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
258 #Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
259 #Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch
260 #Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
261 #Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
262 #Server = ftp://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
263 #Server = http://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
264 #Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
265 #Server = http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
266 #Server = http://archlinux.linuxfreedom.com/$repo/os/$arch
267 #Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
268 #Server = ftp://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch
269 #Server = http://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch
270 #Server = ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
271 #Server = http://mirrors.xmission.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
272 #Server = ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
273 #Server = http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
274 Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
275 Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
276 #Server = http://schlunix.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
277 #Server = http://archlinux.umflint.edu/$repo/os/$arch
278 Server = http://mirror.umoss.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

posting for a friend, so updates may be a bit delayed

Last edited by omnivert (2012-01-24 21:41:38)

hokasch

Member

Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: Pacman 3.6 failing to update to 4 (and possibly related issues)

The first mirror in that list is horribly out of date. Have a look here for syncing ones.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Pacman 3.6 failing to update to 4 (and possibly related issues)

Grab a fresh mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ and try updating again.

omnivert

Member

Registered: 2012-01-24

Posts: 2

Re: Pacman 3.6 failing to update to 4 (and possibly related issues)

Commenting the out of date line out didn't work, I'll try updating the list and get back to you.