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damd

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Registered: 2011-07-28

Posts: 13

Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

For some reason, the first time I use pacman (after not having used it in a while), the connection times out, but when I Ctrl+C and then do the exact same thing, it starts working.

Any ideas why?

$ sudo pacman -S tmux
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (2): libevent-2.0.19-1  tmux-1.6-2

Total Download Size:    0.44 MiB
Total Installed Size:   2.19 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from core...
error: failed retrieving file 'libevent-2.0.19-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.lysator.liu.se : Connection time-out
^Cerror: failed retrieving file 'libevent-2.0.19-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.ustc.edu.cn : Connection time-out

Interrupt signal received

$ sudo pacman -S tmux
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (2): libevent-2.0.19-1  tmux-1.6-2

Total Download Size:    0.44 MiB
Total Installed Size:   2.19 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from core...
 libevent-2.0.19-1-i686                        296.9 KiB   724K/s 00:00 [#####################] 100%
:: Retrieving packages from community...
 tmux-1.6-2-i686                               152.2 KiB  1801K/s 00:00 [#####################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity                                        [#####################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files                                             [#####################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                                       [#####################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space                                     [#####################] 100%
(1/2) installing libevent                                               [#####################] 100%
Optional dependencies for libevent
    python2: to use event_rpcgen.py
(2/2) installing tmux                                                   [#####################] 100%

Last edited by damd (2012-08-13 11:20:38)

Trilby

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Re: Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

I'm not sure if or why it would cause this particular pattern, but two suggestions that may help:
1) don't use ftp mirrors.
2) use reflector, or one of the similar available tools, to select a few good mirrors for your location/connection.

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damd

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Registered: 2011-07-28

Posts: 13

Re: Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

I'm not sure if or why it would cause this particular pattern, but two suggestions that may help:
1) don't use ftp mirrors.
2) use reflector, or one of the similar available tools, to select a few good mirrors for your location/connection.

This happens regardless of what mirror I use.

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,173

Re: Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

Is this issue pacman-specific? Do you know that you definitely have a known-good connection when you're invoking pacman?

Incidentally, reflector returns ftp mirrors in my results - I thought that ftp mirrors had been done away with?

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damd

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Registered: 2011-07-28

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Re: Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

Is this issue pacman-specific? Do you know that you definitely have a known-good connection when you're invoking pacman?

I'm using SSH to connect to the server where this problem is happening, indicating that the LAN connection works. Before invoking pacman I've tried pinging google.com, which works flawlessly.

The problem is still there, I just tried it.

EDIT: This actually happens with wget too:

$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/p … ery.tar.gz
--2012-08-12 21:11:32--  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/p … ery.tar.gz
Resolving aur.archlinux.org... ^C (took a very long time)

$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/p … ery.tar.gz
--2012-08-12 21:11:43--  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/p … ery.tar.gz
Resolving aur.archlinux.org... 208.92.232.29 (works here)

Last edited by damd (2012-08-12 19:12:35)

damd

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Registered: 2011-07-28

Posts: 13

Re: Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

This still happens to me. Any ideas?

cfr

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Registered: 2011-11-27

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Re: Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

pacman --debug
pacman -v

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falconindy

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Re: Connection time-out but then immediately after, no problem

Looks like a nameserver problem. What if you use some public anycast server, like 8.8.8.8 or 4.2.2.1?

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