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I've been moved over to a different network segment, one which I don't control.
Since then, I've been receiving all kinds of pacman errors when I try to update the system; some files will download, but an -Syu will not run. Thinking this may be a mirror problem, I forced a download of one of the problematic files from ftp.archlinux.org, I continue getting errors.
error: failed retrieving file 'glibc-2.7-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : Success
warning: failed to retrieve some files from core
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
I don't understand the message; if it failed, why does the line end in Success?
I have net access and can download some files, but others (gcc, perl, man-pages) will not download. Where do I go from here?
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Firstly, you're not helping yourself by using ftp.archlinux.org - it's throttled, and is not meant to be used. Pick a mirror close to you instead.
Secondly, try a http connection instead of ftp - the wiki mirrors page has all the details.
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Yes, I know that site is throttled. As I indicated, I used it to eliminate the issue of whether the files are somehow damaged on the mirrors. When pacman errors out, it generally goes through a similar error on several of the mirrors from my pacman.d/core file, including easynews, vt.edu, etc. On my other machines, easynews is set up as an http connection.
I'll check the pacman.d/conf on the problem machine when I'm there tomorrow to see if it is an http connection there as well. Failing that, then what?
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