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pabi

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 21

Pacman: Operation to slow

I'm installing archlinux on a vSphere VM.
I edited the mirrorlist according to my country, but when running pacman -Sy I only get the error "Operation to slow" for all mirrors.
I can download files with wget from any mirror in the mirrorlist at good speed without any issues.

Any idea what causes the problem?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Pacman: Operation to slow

I don't know what's causing it but if wget works then you can uncomment the following line in /etc/pacman.conf to use it as your transfer agent...

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

Last edited by Slithery (2015-08-12 18:18:43)

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nbvcxz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 202

Re: Pacman: Operation to slow

I edited the mirrorlist according to my country, but when running pacman -Sy I only get the error "Operation to slow" for all mirrors.
I can download files with wget from any mirror in the mirrorlist at good speed without any issues.

Your country mirrors don't need to be the fastest mirrors available. Check this topic: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector , install it and enable the timer and forget about choosing mirrors ;-)

Last edited by nbvcxz (2015-08-14 21:49:18)

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pabi

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Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 21

Re: Pacman: Operation to slow

Thanks for the replies, refrector worked great!
Still can't explain why so many mirrors do not work from the company network. When I rate the top 15 mirrors with reflector by speed, 8 of the still have 0.00 kb/s.