[SOLVED] Pacman is downloading updates from unlisted broken mirrors

LinuxUser15939 · 2022-02-11 11:08:08

Hey everyone.

Whenever I receive updates from Chaotic AUR, I get an error: failed retrieving file. The error is followed by the name of a mirror that isn't even in any of my mirrorlists (chaotic-mirrorlist and mirrorlist). The result of this is that I can't blacklist this broken mirror. If I do pacman -Syu or pacman -Syyu, 50% of the time the requests come from the broken mirror. This is very annoying, and I can't get any reliable updates because of this.

How do I fix this problem?

Last edited by LinuxUser15939 (2022-02-11 15:35:49)

V1del · 2022-02-11 11:43:51

Reads like a wrongly formatted config. Post your pacman.conf

LinuxUser15939 · 2022-02-11 13:05:01

Here you go

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta = 0.7
Architecture = auto

#IgnorePkg =
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
Color
ILoveCandy
#NoProgressBar
#CheckSpace
VerbosePkgLists
DisableDownloadTimeout
ParallelDownloads = 16

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.

#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[chaotic-aur]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

Slithery · 2022-02-11 13:07:49

Please post the output of...

pacman-conf

What's the URL of the faulty mirror?

LinuxUser15939 · 2022-02-11 13:21:20

The mirror's name is mirror.heigou.pe.kr.

Here's the output of pacman-conf

Scimmia · 2022-02-11 13:29:52

LinuxUser15939 wrote:

The mirror's name is mirror.heigou.pe.kr.

Yeah, that's what https://kr-mirror.chaotic.cx/chaotic-aur/x86_64 is.

Lone_Wolf · 2022-02-11 13:35:43

ParallelDownloads = 16

The longest mirror list shown by pacman-conf has 14 entries, try reducing the number of parallel downloads

Trilby · 2022-02-11 13:54:41

Most of those (under chaotic-aur) aren't even mirrors. Three of the five go through multiple 305 redirects to land at the same final destination. The other two also go through a couple redirects but appear to land on actually unique servers. So you only have three distinct mirrors for chaotic-aur, you waste a bit of time on all the redirects, and as Scimmia noted, the first mirror resolves to the server that you are aware is "broken".

I gather all of the above might be the source of the "chaotic" in the name "chaotic-aur".

Last edited by Trilby (2022-02-11 13:55:10)

LinuxUser15939 · 2022-02-11 15:29:06

Thanks to Scimmia and Trilby for the informative answers! I decided to open up all of the mirrors in my browser and found out that 6 out of the 17 mirrors present in the default/original chaotic-mirrorlist file redirected to the broken mirror. So, I deleted those from the list. I then did some speed tests (with the time command) and managed to organize a handful of mirrors based on download speeds. Everything works now. Very happy with the result.

Last edited by LinuxUser15939 (2022-02-11 15:29:22)

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[SOLVED] Pacman is downloading updates from unlisted broken mirrors

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