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TKing

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Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

So, I'm trying to do a clean install of Arch Linux. I've chrooted into the system and tried to download wireless_tools, netcfg, and dialog to set up my wireless connection but ran into two issues. First, sometimes I would get a message that says something like:

error: failed retrieving file 'wireless_tools-29-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.us.leaseweb.net : Operation too slow. Less than 1024 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds

From what I gathered then it should try the next mirror in my mirrorlist until it finds one with a decent speed. However, then it checks the package integrity and I get more error messages. For each package there's a message like:

error: wireless_tools: signature from "Gaetan Bisson <gaetan.@normalesup.org>" is invalid

and then:

error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))

Any ideas on what's causing this/how to fix it?

Last edited by TKing (2012-10-02 21:45:47)

DSpider

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ion_failed
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … 9.22_error

Also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … de#Mirrors

# pacman -Syy

Use this whenever a mirror is changed. This is considered to be good practice and will avoid possible headaches.

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TKing

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Ok, I cleared my pacman cache, reset all my keys, changed my mirror and ran pacman -Syy and ran into the same errors when trying to sync the databases..

Last edited by TKing (2012-10-02 14:17:30)

DSpider

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Can you ping Google?

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TKing

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Can you ping Google?

Yeah, pinging Google works fine.

headkase

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

What is the output of the "date" command?

TKing

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Tue Oct  2 08:45:40 PDT 2012

Looks like the correct date to me.

headkase

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Ok, that was a sanity check.  If your system time is "enough" incorrect then pacman signatures will fail.  Checked, carry on!

TKing

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

It's probably worth mentioning that pacstrap worked fine, and since then I've generated an fstab, chrooted into the system, configured the locale, the clock and set the hostname, so I think the issue lies somewhere between running pacstrap and now.

headkase

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Did you set the hostname in both files:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Hostname

/etc/hostname

Needs to just contain one line, the hostname.

/etc/hosts

You need to edit two of the lines to the exact same text string you put in /etc/hostname

My /etc/hostname:

Jeremiah

My /etc/hosts:

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
127.0.0.1	Jeremiah	localhost
::1		Jeremiah	localhost

# End of file

If those three different text entries do not exactly match then you will have network troubles.

TKing

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Yes, both files are configured correctly.

Also, I forgot to post this earlier, but there's also an error that says:

GPGME error: No data

TKing

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Ah, turns out the problem was my network's content filter. I was able to circumvent it by switching my mirrors to FTP.

Last edited by TKing (2012-10-02 20:37:30)

headkase

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Re: Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Please edit your first post and add "[Solved]" somewhere in its title.  That lets helpers know they can skip it and also people searching with, say Google, will see it in their results.