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Nex

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Registered: 2014-11-15

Posts: 2

IPV6 issues during the installation? "error: failed retrieving file"

Hi!
I currently try to install Arch on my Notebook using the Newbie Guide from the German Arch Wiki. Everything seemed to work fine until I got to the point of installing the base system using

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel wpa_supplicant

. The downloading process fails and returns about the same error message for every mirror:

error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from MIRRORNAME : Resolving timed out after XY milliseconds

I already tried to use different mirrors, but none of them worked. I tried to reach them on another machine via the browser and could access them, so they're definitly up. It therefore could be my internet connection, but I'm connected via an ethernet cable and can ping e.g. google.com or archlinux.org without any problems. I looked up the issue on different forums and almost everyone said that it's an issue caused by ipv6; I tried different workarounds, but none of them worked since most of them were used on an Arch system that was already installed but had problems with pacman. Due to the fact that I'm encountering this problem on a CD that I try to install Arch with, most of the files I'm supposed to edit to disable ipv6 aren't there (yet?) - and the other workarounds just didn't work. I really want to install Arch on my system, but can't continue with the installation when pacman can't reach the mirrors.

I therefore need your help to solve this; like I said, it's probably an issue with ipv6, but I just can't find out how to disable it on my installation medium (I burned the archlinux-2014.11.01-dual.iso on it, if that matters).

Last edited by Nex (2014-11-15 15:05:06)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,349

Re: IPV6 issues during the installation? "error: failed retrieving file"

run ping6 -c 4 google.com and post the output.

alss post the output of :

ip addr
ip route -4
ip route -6

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2014-11-15 16:37:13)

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Nex

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Registered: 2014-11-15

Posts: 2

Re: IPV6 issues during the installation? "error: failed retrieving file"

Figured it out myself - after booting from the CD I had to hit Tab in the selection screen while having the install-arch-stuff selected; I then could edit the kernel parameters and add "ipv6.disable=1" and made it work. Still, thanks for the help!