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matchew

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 19

[SOLVED] chromium install fails (imperfect solution)

I've recently installed arch on a new machine and while I am generally able to install other software from pacman I am having trouble with chromium.

Specifically one file:

error: failed retrieving file 'gtk2-2.24.24-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.acm.wpi.edu : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds

This error repeats for each mirror only to be exhausted and cause the installation to fail.
This has been occurring for over a week. I was away the entirety of last week and when I came in this morning I Synced and was still received the same error. I've searched but not encountered any similar errors. Can anyone add anything or might possibly know the status of gtk2-2.24.24?

EDIT:

changing the pacman configuration to use wget solved this issue, but I consider this imperfect as I don't really understand why the issue was happening in the first place. Perhaps I should just be happy that it worked, but I just wish I knew "why".

Last edited by matchew (2014-07-08 15:20:26)

urlugal

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Registered: 2014-07-07

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] chromium install fails (imperfect solution)

I had a lot of the same errors for various other packages.  Looking here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Im … erformance

I used rankmirrors to get the fastest available and then I installed wget and uncomment the line from /etc/pacman.conf to use it and I have not seen that error ever again.  Not sure if this is the correct way to fix the problem but it has always worked for me.

matchew

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] chromium install fails (imperfect solution)

I seem to recall setting up the mirrors this way when I installed the system. I suppose I can always rerun it and report back. The fact that this error repeated as it went through a dozen or two mirrors makes me think this is not the issue. Further, I am able to retrieve other files from these same mirrors without issue.

matchew

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] chromium install fails (imperfect solution)

That unfortunately did not fix my problem. Strangely enough I am able to download it from the mirror listed in my error message without fail at 10.7 MB/s using wget...I wonder what this is. I have been able to install a few other programs without issue too since I made this original post a couple hours ago.

EDIT:

ok, I went to the pacman conf

vi /etc/pacman.conf

and uncommented

XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -c --passive-ftp -c %u

which then used wget to download the packages. I dislike this option, and wish I understood what was occuring previously. I think I will recomment that line and use this as a method in case of future failures. I hate to mark this as solved...but I will at the end of my work day if I can't figure out a better explanation.

Last edited by matchew (2014-07-07 18:29:25)