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#1 2009-11-07 15:03:05

Shortgeek
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[SOLVED] Mirrorlist setup issues --> transient resolver failure

I was trying to setup xorg, and somehow, my mirrorlist got wiped. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42576 says I should type "sudo pacman -U <a filename>", but that just gives me a transient resolver failure. I tried to do "sudo pacman -S pacman", but it tells me I'm already up to date, reinstalling doesn't refresh the mirrorlist, and I don't know how to make it redownload. My mirrorlist, written by hand, is:

Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.umflint.edu/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://schlunix.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

I doubt that all four mirrors are syncing at once, but they all give me a transient resolver failure, so I probably set up my mirrorlist wrong. Pinging www.google.com works fine.

Sorry for posting about an issue that the forums seem very tired of, but none of the threads I found gave me a solution that worked. Could somebody help me set up my mirrorlist?

Thank you.

Last edited by Shortgeek (2009-11-07 20:47:41)

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#2 2009-11-07 15:29:50

MadTux
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Re: [SOLVED] Mirrorlist setup issues --> transient resolver failure

Try to force a download from your mirrors with pacman -Syy

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#3 2009-11-07 15:46:31

Shortgeek
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Re: [SOLVED] Mirrorlist setup issues --> transient resolver failure

Now I get 24 transient resolver errors: 2 for each repo/mirror combination. Reinstalling pacman is unlikely to work anyway, because it doesn't mess with conffiles, right?

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#4 2009-11-07 15:50:48

MadTux
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Re: [SOLVED] Mirrorlist setup issues --> transient resolver failure

I have no indication that your pacman installation is corrupt, I rather guess you should try other mirrors, since your current mirrors are not reachable. Where are you located? Maybe it helps to try a mirror in another country near you.

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#5 2009-11-07 15:53:33

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Re: [SOLVED] Mirrorlist setup issues --> transient resolver failure

According to Mirrorcheck, three of the mirrors you listed are more or less out of sync. Maybe they are also unreachable.

https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

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#6 2009-11-07 20:47:15

Shortgeek
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Re: [SOLVED] Mirrorlist setup issues --> transient resolver failure

Huh. I guess I have really bad luck then; even though this was not the first set of mirrors I'd used, changing them out again suddenly worked. The ones I'm using now are:

ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/di … archlinux/
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/

Thanks MadTux; this issue is [SOLVED].

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