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I have issues with my network, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2272632
So just now, after waking up late I had network issues while I tied to run pacman -Syu, so when network came back, I pressed "n" and then reran pacman -Suy, but then suddenly the updates that were available 1 second earlier was no longer there.
I'm just going to post my terminal output and ask if someone can explain this:
sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 122,8 KiB 21,9 KiB/s 00:06 [#############################################################################] 100%
extra 8,2 MiB 10,4 MiB/s 00:01 [#############################################################################] 100%
multilib 129,2 KiB 23,5 KiB/s 00:05 [#############################################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mirror.osbeck.com : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from fastly.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Could not resolve host: fastly.mirror.pkgbuild.com
warning: fatal error from fastly.mirror.pkgbuild.com, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (6) libwireplumber-0.5.14-1 neovim-0.11.7-1 python-numpy-2.4.4-1 qt6-svg-6.11.0-2 wireplumber-0.5.14-1 xorg-setxkbmap-1.3.5-1
Total Download Size: 15,55 MiB
Total Installed Size: 80,26 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0,07 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra 8,2 MiB 5,07 MiB/s 00:02 [#############################################################################] 100%
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to doI tried running-Syy and then -Syu in case forcing the db update would fix it, it did not.
I checked online via a browser and those newer versions does not exist... (or via pacman -Sii for that matter)
Am I being hacked? (crazy question, but what am I supposed to think when things like this happens)
Please advice...
Last edited by Bedna (2026-03-29 19:18:54)
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mirror.osbeck.com is out of date. Taking wireplumber as an example, this mirror has it at version 0.5.13-2:
https://mirror.osbeck.com/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/
wireplumber-0.5.13-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst 13-Jan-2026 09:43 275838Current package version is 0.5.14-1:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … replumber/
Last Updated: 2026-03-28 19:39 UTC
$ pacman -Qi wireplumber
Name : wireplumber
Version : 0.5.14-1
...
Install Date : Sun 29 Mar 2026 12:47:00
...Not sure how you got "I checked online via a browser and those newer versions does not exist", they certainly do.
Now, since in your first pacman -Syu mirror.osbeck.com timed out, the extra.db database got downloaded from a different, more up-to-date mirror, and you saw the list of packages to be updated.
When you ran pacman -Syu again, extra.db got downloaded from mirror.osbeck.com, so now you see the older package versions (that you already have installed, so they don't show in the update list).
Last edited by stanczew (2026-03-29 11:31:44)
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To be honest, I used google to search for python-numpy and the highest hit was for the version I had installed. Should obv have checked arch db directly.
I still, a few hours later still got "no new updates", so I ran an update of my mirrors using reflector and I'm happy to report that solved my issue.
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