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kawa

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 23

Re: pacman strange behavior (SOLVED)

Are you using iptables firewall? ... maybe an issue with ftp connection tracking ...

How do I find that out?

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,914

Re: pacman strange behavior (SOLVED)

try switching to wget for downloading packages.

as root, edit /etc/pacman.conf

look for this line

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

remove the # so wget is used, and try installing again.

Using wget tends to be faster and more reliable then the default protocol, specially with ftp-mirrors.

Edit : atleast that's my experience.

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roguetr

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Registered: 2006-10-15

Posts: 26

Re: pacman strange behavior (SOLVED)

As for connection tracking, your are on your own. I will note though that the latest kernel + the latest iptables + connection tracking module will be beneficial. Continuing this discussion would be OT.

Good luck!