Up gradation fails for perl, gcc, linux-3.1.6-1, linux-firmware

kra3 · 2012-01-02 12:03:05

# pacman -Syu

fails because, gcc, perl, linux and linux-firmware packages are not retrieved from mirrors.
ie., pacman gives error as

"error: <package name> appears to be truncated"
"warning: resuming downloading of <package_name> not possible: starting over"

and last

"warning: failed to retrieve some files from core"
"error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I just installed Arch Linux, I needs to install gnome and this hinders me.
I tried to directly download those packages (tried both curl and wget) from official mirror and some other mirrors, while doing so, both tools failed (timed out)
That means servers are imposing some kind of download cap on those files (they are big downloads).

I uses following mirrors by rankmirrors
mirror.rit.edu
mirror.cse.iitk.edu
linux.cs.nctu.edu.tw
ftp.iinet.net.au
ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de
mirrors.adnettelcom.ro
ftp.archlinux.kiev.ua
mirrors.kernel.org

Any pointers?
I tried all I know about Arch, from morning. Now it's evening..

Allan · 2012-01-02 12:06:52

Get rid of the top mirror and try again.

kra3 · 2012-01-02 12:17:09

Thanks Allan. That was a good pointer.
Even though changing top mirror doesn't made any difference,
I was successful in manually downloading gcc from that Australian mirror. And now able to install gnome.
I'm going to try this for other offending packages for total system update.

Btw, if there's a setting in pacman.conf where we can set time to wait for a connection, then I think pacman will work.

As per my understanding what happens is pacman get timed out while trying to download those packages.

kra3 · 2012-01-02 12:20:06

Never mind, Thanks for all those helped.

I'm using company network and here we have 10mb cap for downloadable file size.

karol · 2012-01-02 14:28:13

Please remember to mark the thread as solved.

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#1 2012-01-02 12:03:05

Up gradation fails for perl, gcc, linux-3.1.6-1, linux-firmware

#2 2012-01-02 12:06:52

Re: Up gradation fails for perl, gcc, linux-3.1.6-1, linux-firmware

#3 2012-01-02 12:17:09

Re: Up gradation fails for perl, gcc, linux-3.1.6-1, linux-firmware

#4 2012-01-02 12:20:06

Re: Up gradation fails for perl, gcc, linux-3.1.6-1, linux-firmware

#5 2012-01-02 14:28:13

Re: Up gradation fails for perl, gcc, linux-3.1.6-1, linux-firmware

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