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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?
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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?
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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).
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try enabling wget in /etc/pacman.conf
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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.
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A reinstall in vmware did not help
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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.
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You could try putting ftp.archlinux.org at the top of your mirror lists, maybe your mirror is screwy..
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I run archlinux inside a vmware environment without glitches, using wget as pacman's slave.
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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...
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Will try with NAT mode. I have no problem at work with vmware and arch
Perhaps my WinXP installation is just foobar
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Amazing! NAT mode worked!!! Nice! Strange though. Bridge worked fine at work..
Marking this post as [solved]
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