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bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

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Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

When I run pacman, I often get this error from pacman... I have a fw that runs antivirus scanning in flow mode that is causing this. I can either disable this entirely in my fw or I can disable only for mirrorhosts... But before I do this, are there any configuration I can do on pacman/curl to fix my problem?

Regards,

BTJ

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karol

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

Have you tried different mirrors?

bjorntj

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

As ai said, the problem is not the mirror, it is the antivirus scanning done by my firewall...

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jasonwryan

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

Not an Installation issue, moving to Networking...

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Xyne

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

Not an Installation issue, moving to Networking...

Beat ya!

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

Find the line of code in the pacman sources that causes the timeout, increase the time and recompile pacman with ABS?

bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

Well, that is a solution but I think I put it a bit down in the solution stack...

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Someone wrote:
"I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"
To which someone replied:
"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows"

Awebb

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

I guess the problem is, that the AV first fetches the file, scans it and only then reports it to the requesting machine. Considering that a) no AV I know of is able to really detect malware in a Linux package and b) every package goes through a signature check in pacman, it is probable a good idea to whitelist the mirror paths as far down the URI as you can.

bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

Yes, I guess if there is no configuration to change the default timeout, whitelisting is the way to go... It might even make the download a bit faster too...... Thx...

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exos

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Re: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seco

I've the same error, but my pacman are showing me negative speed:

http://paster.ninja/#/paste/5X6ojTH9bXp … a3GxmfzMDg

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