Pacman failing to connect

Mechy09 · 2012-03-05 23:52:01

Hey Guys!

I hope this is not a repost. I have looked around the forums and inquired of Google but couldn’t fix it. If this is explained somewhere else, just point me over there!

I just completed my first Arch install and went to update it with:

Pacman –Syu

I receive the error message:

Error: failed retrieving file ‘core.db’ from <name of server> : network is unreachable
Or:
Error: failed retrieving file ‘core.db’ from <name of server> : connection timed out

I un-commented all the US servers and let it run, but they all failed. I am connecting through my school’s proxy. I added the proxy to /etc/wgetrc. Wget seems to work but I can't seem to get pacman working...

Thanks in advance!

Xyne · 2012-03-06 00:11:23

Check this thread and try setting the proxy environment variables: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 95#p932895

If that doesn't work but wget does, you could uncomment the wget XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf as a temporary solution.

ewaller · 2012-03-06 02:50:08

As a sanity check -- (Sorry, this is your first post; I cannot make any assumptions)

What is the output of ip addr ??
Can you ping archlinux.org?

Mechy09 · 2012-03-07 01:23:24

Thanks for the quick responses everyone!

Xyne wrote:

Check this thread and try setting the proxy environment variables: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 95#p932895
If that doesn't work but wget does, you could uncomment the wget XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf as a temporary solution.

That did it! You mentioned this as a temporary solution... What would be a more elegant/permanent fix?

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#1 2012-03-05 23:52:01

Pacman failing to connect

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