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ratcheer

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[Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

For three days, "pacman -Syu" has said it is updating my repositories, then informed me, "There is nothing to do." Today, I looked on the Arch homepage and saw that there is supposed to be an updated version of btrfs-progs to 3.17.3-1. I ran "pacman -Qs btrfs-progs" and found that I have version 3.17.2-1 installed. So, I ran "pacman -S btrfs-progs" and it said my version is up to date and offered to reinstall 3.17.2-1. So, something seems to be wrong with pacman on my system.

I will double check my repository settings (which I have not changed in several weeks) and the status of those repositories. But this certainly seems fishy.

Tim

Last edited by ratcheer (2014-12-07 01:56:09)

ratcheer

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

Every repository mirror in my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist is 100% in sync, according to https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

Tim

headkase

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

To get the obvious out of the way, have you tried "pacman -Syyu"?

graysky

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

Guessing the mirror is just out of date despite what you posted... try using reflector, assuming you want US mirrors:

# reflector -c "United States" -a 1 -f 3 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# pacman -Syyu

Last edited by graysky (2014-12-06 13:23:34)

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ratcheer

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

No, but I just tried it:

# pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                 116.1 KiB   602K/s 00:00 [############################################] 100%
 extra                                               1809.7 KiB  2.21M/s 00:01 [############################################] 100%
 community                                              2.4 MiB  2.49M/s 00:01 [############################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

Tim

dice

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

erm. 3.17.3-1 is just in testing.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=
Do you use testing repo?
If not maybe there is in fact nothing to do for pacman.

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ratcheer

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

graysky: I regenerated my mirrorlist, same results.

Thanks, dice. I missed that that is a testing package. So, maybe my system really doesn't have anything to do. But I can't remember my system going this long without anything. I will wait a while longer.

Thanks,
Tim

clfarron4

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

But I can't remember my system going this long without anything. I will wait a while longer.

I remember once where I didn't get an update from the non-testing repositories for a week and a bit, mainly because it was the holiday season. It's pretty damn close as well, so I'm not surprised things have slowed down a little.

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karol

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

I'm not 100% sure, but I've looked at my pacman log and the latest non-testing update seems to be firefox 34 from December 1st.

Trilby

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

There were a quite a few updates today, and many each day, but do you have any of these: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=

If you have expac, you can check this:

expac --timefmt=%Y/%m/%d -S "%b %n" $(pacman -Qq) | sort

The tail end of the output of that (packages I've upgraded since 1 dec):

2014/12/01 ffmpeg
2014/12/01 firefox
2014/12/03 antiword
2014/12/03 mtr
2014/12/03 xapian-core
2014/12/04 lib32-glibc
2014/12/04 mpv

EDIT: for clarification, this command doesn't show which packages I've upgraded on these dates - it shows when they were built in the remote repos.  I would get this same result even if I hadn't updated since the start of December.  This command will list packages you have installed and the last date they've been rebuilt (upgraded) in the repos.

Last edited by Trilby (2014-12-06 18:04:48)

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ratcheer

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Re: [Resolved] pacman has stopped updating my system

Ok, I just now got a package upgraded (python2-dateutil). Looks like this was a false alarm. Sorry.

Tim