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Susorodni

Member

Registered: 2021-11-23

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Pacman timing out on updating all packages

So recently I have had this problem with pacman. I can't download most packages and I cannot do a general system update with

sudo pacman -Syu

. When I try to update, all I see is this:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core-x86-64-v3

After a few minutes, this message is printed several times for each of the mirrors after trying to run an update:

error: failed retrieving file 'core-x86-64-v3.db' from (mirror) : the requested URL returned error: 404

I have refreshed and changed my mirrors list several times and checked my pacman etc files, but nothing seems to change. I have also tried different networks as well but to no avail. I have also tried

sudo pacman -Syyu

and

sudo pacman -Syuu

with the same inefficient results. Could somebody please help me with this problem?

Last edited by Susorodni (2022-01-28 22:29:47)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,654

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman timing out on updating all packages

and where, exactly, are you getting core-x86-64-v3? Arch doesn't have it.

Susorodni

Member

Registered: 2021-11-23

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman timing out on updating all packages

and where, exactly, are you getting core-x86-64-v3? Arch doesn't have it.

Huh, that was the issue. Apparently, there were "core-x86-64-v3" variants of core, extra, testing, and community in my pacman.conf file. I removed them and simply took out the "x86" stuff and it worked. I'm not entirely sure why those were there in the first place, but thanks for noticing that!