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jmvidalvia

Member

Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 23

[Solved] Suddently Pacman unable to synchronise to databases

Hi,
After years of no issue, I run into this problem:

[root@myArch jm]# LC_ALL=C pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from artfiles.org : Failed to connect to artfiles.org port 21: Connection refused
error: failed to update core (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from artfiles.org : Failed to connect to artfiles.org port 21: Connection refused
error: failed to update extra (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from artfiles.org : Failed to connect to artfiles.org port 21: Connection refused
error: failed to update community (download library error)
 archlinuxfr is up to date

Thanks,

Last edited by jmvidalvia (2015-10-03 16:35:24)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,726

Re: [Solved] Suddently Pacman unable to synchronise to databases

Use a different mirror.

jmvidalvia

Member

Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 23

Re: [Solved] Suddently Pacman unable to synchronise to databases

So simple. Thanks.