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Labello

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-01-21

Posts: 317

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No upgrade possible...

Hi everyone!

I recently ran into a problem that is driving me mad. Everytime I have been trying to upgrade my system via:

pacman -Syyuu

I got connection and service errors. I did not switch mirror and waited a day because I thought these were just ome problems with the mirror is was using. But now I switched to the official ArchLinux Mirror to somehow narro down my problem, but I still get these errors:

[root@seb-desktop seb]# pacman -Syyuu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing                     26.6K  114.5K/s 00:00:00 [############################] 100%
 core                        36.2K  111.1K/s 00:00:00 [############################] 100%
 extra                      451.6K  285.7K/s 00:00:02 [############################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'community-testing.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed to update community-testing (Service not available, closing control connection)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed to update community (Service not available, closing control connection)
 archlinuxfr                 10.8K   84.2K/s 00:00:00 [############################] 100%
 arch-games                  33.6K  136.5K/s 00:00:00 [############################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace kernel26-firmware with testing/linux-firmware? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Remove (1): kernel26-firmware-2.6.34-1

Total Removed Size:   2.43 MB

Targets (14): boost-libs-1.43.0-1  akonadi-1.3.1-4  boost-1.43.0-1  libcups-1.4.4-1
              xdg-utils-1.0.2.20100618-1  cups-1.4.4-1  k3b-1.93.0rc4-1
              linux-firmware-20100606-1  mkinitcpio-0.6.6-1  kernel26-2.6.34-2
              libao-1.0.0-2  libvpx-0.9.1-1  pango-1.28.1-1  xterm-259-1

Total Download Size:    47.56 MB
Total Installed Size:   307.96 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from testing...
error: failed retrieving file 'boost-libs-1.43.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed retrieving file 'akonadi-1.3.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed retrieving file 'boost-1.43.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed retrieving file 'linux-firmware-20100606-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed retrieving file 'mkinitcpio-0.6.6-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed retrieving file 'kernel26-2.6.34-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.kernel.org : Service not available, closing control connection
warning: failed to retrieve some files from testing
error: failed to commit transaction (Service not available, closing control connection)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I do not really know what to do. As you can see some Repos are not syncable and no package at all is downloadable. This is so strange. The rest of my internet connection is working just fine!

Any help? I am really lost :-(

greeting and thanks in advance! :-)

Last edited by Labello (2010-06-19 15:12:03)

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kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: No upgrade possible...

the one way is to use wget or aria2 to download the packages. see this

Labello

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-01-21

Posts: 317

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Re: No upgrade possible...

man! this worked like a charm! this rocks! thank you so much! but why is pacman on its own not able to download the files? i can recall that i recently updated pacman. but i don't know whether this problem occured right afterwards since i often upgrade without much hesitating :-)

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: No upgrade possible...

i still don't get it why you used double -u. -uu means downgrade

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: No upgrade possible...

Also I would use reflector to make a good mirrorlist.