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ninjaprawn

Member

From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Address family not supported by protocol error when Syu'ing

when i run pacman -Syu i get the following errors!

[root@arch danny]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.sh.cvut.cz : Address family not supported by protocol
 core is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db.tar.gz' from ftp.sh.cvut.cz : Address family not supported by protocol
 extra is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db.tar.gz' from ftp.sh.cvut.cz : Address family not supported by protocol
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 local database is up to date
[root@arch danny]#

I havent edited any of the pacman config files or mirrors!

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2007 - Started using Arch Linux as my only/main OS
- Samsung Series 3, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz - 8Gb DDR3 ram - 700Gb HDD
On board intel Graphics & Sound

wavenator

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Registered: 2007-12-03

Posts: 62

Re: Address family not supported by protocol error when Syu'ing

try to change a mirror
go to /etc/pacman,d/mirrorlist
put a # before your current mirror
and delete the # before whateve mirror you wAnt

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ninjaprawn

Member

From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: Address family not supported by protocol error when Syu'ing

thanks

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2007 - Started using Arch Linux as my only/main OS
- Samsung Series 3, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz - 8Gb DDR3 ram - 700Gb HDD
On board intel Graphics & Sound

anykey

Member

From: Trier, Germany

Registered: 2004-06-12

Posts: 79

Re: Address family not supported by protocol error when Syu'ing

uh, can anyone explain why this is happening rather than just instructing how to ignore that?

ninjaprawn

Member

From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: Address family not supported by protocol error when Syu'ing

id guess the mirror (it was a czech republic one, i dont live anywhere near there, so no big loss) had shut down??

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2007 - Started using Arch Linux as my only/main OS
- Samsung Series 3, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz - 8Gb DDR3 ram - 700Gb HDD
On board intel Graphics & Sound