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vladi

Member

Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 1

pacman -Syyu :error: failed retrieving file 'core.db

Hi ,

I tried to install  samba  on my Arch Linux host  and after upgrading  pacman to 4.0.2  I get this error :

# pacman -S samba
pacman: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7)
resolving dependencies..

Targets (2): smbclient-3.5.4-1  samba-3.5.4-1

Total Download Size:    16.67 MiB
Total Installed Size:   126.39 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       59.91 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'smbclient-3.5.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.belnet.be : Connection time-out

Then I ran this command :

# pacman -Syyu

Total Download Size:    157.98 MiB
Total Installed Size:   936.30 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       31.82 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from core...
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-4.5.0-6-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.belnet.be : Operation too slow. Less than 1024 bytes/sec transfered the last 10 seconds

The  entire update  process fails  with  the same errors  .

How  to fix it ?

Thanks .

Last edited by vladi (2012-02-26 12:49:23)

swordfish

Member

Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 160

Re: pacman -Syyu :error: failed retrieving file 'core.db

Have you already tried a different mirror?

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