[Solved] Arch (0.7.1) and vmware - pacman network trouble?

Joffer · 2006-01-16 20:28:01

I've installed Arch 0.7.1 using VMware on Windows XP to test it (only the base system so far, mostly due to my problem: I can ping hosts, even arch mirrors, but when I do an 'pacman -Sy' it just stalls at 0% downloading/syncing 'current' package database.

Any suggestions?

cactus · 2006-01-16 21:28:54

Do you have a firewall that is disallowing ftp traffic (active or passive ftp)?
Do you have winderz firewall running?
Are you using a vmware 'bridged' network connection, or a vmware 'nat' network connection?

Joffer · 2006-01-16 21:57:14

cactus wrote:

Do you have a firewall that is disallowing ftp traffic (active or passive ftp)?
Do you have winderz firewall running?
Are you using a vmware 'bridged' network connection, or a vmware 'nat' network connection?

- No Windows Firewall, but my router is also a firewall, but it allows "all" outbound.
- I'm using bridged network. I can ping the vmware host (windows xp) from arch inside vmware (and internet sites such as ftp.heanet.ie (one of the mirrors) and www.vg.no etc.

I've commented out every repo in /etc/pacman.d/current except for ftp.heanet.ie (which I can ping from arch), but it just stalls. I'm on a 2Mbit SDSL connection btw.

If I just let it stall (if that's what it does) for a while, it restarts or something. At least the

 current      [               ] 0%   0K  0.0K/s  00:00:00

line repeats, at 0%.

I also disabled extra (community and testing was already disabled) in pacman.conf and tried a 'pacman -S lftp'. It stalls just like with sync-refresh, trying to download expat package (which was a dependency for lftp).

I had no problem downloading the file from the same location from windows (ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlin … pkg.tar.gz).

Lone_Wolf · 2006-01-16 22:04:52

try enabling wget in /etc/pacman.conf

Joffer · 2006-01-16 22:32:57

Lone_Wolf wrote:

try enabling wget in /etc/pacman.conf

Done.
It looks like it works, making the connection and all:

==> SYST ... OK  ==> PWD ... OK
==> TYPE ... OK
==> PASV ... OK   ==> RETR current.db.tar.gz

 0% [                  ] 0     --.-- K/s

The output has been truncated a bit. It stalls like it does in my posts above.

I'll ditch this vmware installation and reinstall.. doesn't take that much time. Will report back if it helped.

Joffer · 2006-01-17 00:32:19

A reinstall in vmware did not help

cactus · 2006-01-17 01:39:20

just for shits and giggles, try using 'nat' mode instead of bridged mode.
I have no idea why it is not working for you, as I have many virtual machines running under a vmware install (but on linux instead of windows for the host machine).

I have even set up internal 'switches' between various vm's, and have a virtual test network and so forth..

I realize this information doesn't help you, other than to show that arch can indeed run inside of vmware.

stonecrest · 2006-01-17 04:38:41

You could try putting ftp.archlinux.org at the top of your mirror lists, maybe your mirror is screwy..

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-01-17 07:58:44

I run archlinux inside a vmware environment without glitches, using wget as pacman's slave.

jakob · 2006-01-17 15:45:44

something that helped me when i was not able to get into the net out of my vmware-machine was adding "dns" to the line beginning with networks: in the /etc/nsswitch.conf...

but as you are able to ping hosts this probably won't solve it.

in my days i was able to ping ips but no hosts, adding the above mentioned solved my probem...

Joffer · 2006-01-19 01:12:46

Will try with NAT mode. I have no problem at work with vmware and arch

Perhaps my WinXP installation is just foobar

Joffer · 2006-01-20 19:00:42

Amazing! NAT mode worked!!! Nice! Strange though. Bridge worked fine at work..

Marking this post as [solved]

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[Solved] Arch (0.7.1) and vmware - pacman network trouble?

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