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kapz

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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(SOLVED) Pacman mirrorlist & DB Sync issue.

Hi, I messed with HDD through BSD and my HDD was wiped clean!(grr) anyways I reinstalled Arch with 2009.08 iso image. I've setup connections and enabled repos and updated mirrorlist. I can ping google and browse it through links. System behaves normally. But when I try to install/search ANY package, it says not found in SyncDB.
I've double checked the package names and also tried pacman -Syy, but still no joy
It says core,extra & community are up to date, but stilll wont find kde, apache, alsa-utils etc.. I have not modified pacman.conf in any way. Help!

Last edited by kapz (2009-12-16 20:58:55)

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MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

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Re: (SOLVED) Pacman mirrorlist & DB Sync issue.

Most likely, your mirror is out of synch. Look into your mirrorlist and determine the first enabled mirror from top of the file, then check against

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

Pacman will pick the first mirror out of your list as long as it is reachable and if the mirror is out of synch, you won't get any updates.

kapz

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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Re: (SOLVED) Pacman mirrorlist & DB Sync issue.

Hi MadTux! yep did that, I had enable a lot of mirrors so pacman picked the first one that was out of sync. Removed the unwanted mirrors and everything fine now. Goofed up there coz I thought pacman would pick up new mirrorlist files once refreshed DB. Anyways thanks

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