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Eboogie

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Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 8

[Solved] Trouble updating

bash-3.2# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 arch-games is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (3): boost-1.37.0-1  mplayer-28347-1  virtualbox_bin-2.1.2-1  

Total Download Size:    49.26 MB
Total Installed Size:   199.17 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'boost-1.37.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from locke.suu.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
bash-3.2#

For now i can live with out the updates but would just like to know what went wrong. I can post my  /etc/pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist if requsted.

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Eboogie (2009-01-22 22:22:36)

EVRAMP

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 173

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Re: [Solved] Trouble updating

Try to do pacman -Syy next day. This issue occurs when the mirror is badly synced (boost-1.37.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz was not fetched from oficial archlinux ftp).
Try to wait a day or two, then contact admin of that mirror.
You can use as much mirrors in your mirrorlist as you want. If fetching from one fails, pacman tries to fetch it from another mirror.

toad

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From: if only I knew

Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: [Solved] Trouble updating

Can confirm EVRAMP's comments. I am an Arch newbie and the above has happened to me twice so far in one month. I keep on trying periodically and usually after a day or so it works

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Eboogie

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Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Trouble updating

Thank you i will change it to solved and ill try again later this week.