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gomi

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Registered: 2023-02-01

Posts: 33

[SOLVED] error 523 on archmirror.it when running pacman

Since running pacman -Syu as root yesterday darktable has been unresponsive when trying to import new filmrolls (DT slang for folders/directories). So with thoughts of reinstalling DT I ran pacman -Syu as root a few minutes ago with the following response: <edit: SYU correction to Syu</edit>

 [root@mingus ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core                  132.6 KiB   241 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 extra                   8.2 MiB   952 KiB/s 00:09 [######################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from archmirror.it : The requested URL returned error: 523
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from archmirror.it : The requested URL returned error: 523
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (9) epiphany-45.1-1  evolution-data-server-3.50.1-2  gjs-2:1.78.0-3
             iproute2-6.6.0-2  libedataserverui4-3.50.1-2
             libphonenumber-1:8.13.24-1  opencv-4.8.1-3  protobuf-25.0-1
             python-tornado-6.3.0-1

Total Download Size:    38.07 MiB
Total Installed Size:  161.38 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        0.28 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
 opencv-4.8.1-3-x...    26.0 MiB   964 KiB/s 00:28 [######################] 100%
 Total (1/9)            38.1 MiB  1367 KiB/s 00:29 [######################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'opencv-4.8.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig' from archmirror.it : The requested URL returned error: 523
warning: too many errors from archmirror.it, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I strongly suspect the package opencv is the cause of my troubles. But I have no idea how an Italian repository got in there. I thought I had cancelled all but the top 5 UK pacman repos. However, that was several months ago and I was ill and making a lot of mistakes several months ago! So it is quite possible I thought I had cut the repos numbers down but failed to do so or did it wrongly.

In any event, I can't update my system just now. Would somebody please point the way forward for me?

<edit2> Lifted 5 good repos according to the Mirror Status list to the top of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew uncommented, moved mirrorlist.pacnew to mirrorlist and it worked.

Last edited by gomi (2023-11-06 23:31:19)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] error 523 on archmirror.it when running pacman

archmirror.it is out of sync.  Change the primary mirror to one that is in sync.  See https://http.dev/523 for the error code.

gomi

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Registered: 2023-02-01

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] error 523 on archmirror.it when running pacman

Thanks @loqs. Solved the problem but useful to know.