Can not sync any database in pacman after new install

azwethinkweiz · 2007-07-03 21:06:00

I've been trying to install Arch using the 2007.05 base iso. Ive never had any problems before installing Arch but I havent done it for a while and maybe Im messing up somewhere. Basically I install everything, base packages, kernel, bootloader...then when I try to run pacman -Syu after that i get this...

...Syncronizing package databases...

error: failed retireving file 'current.db.tar.gz' from: No ssuch file or directory
error: failed to syncronize current: No such file or directory
error: failed to syncronize any databases

If I run pacman -S gnome it comes up with only icon themes and what not for a total package size of around 3mb...which is definately not all of gnome.
pacman -S gnome-extras sends back gnome-extras not found in sync db
pacman -S xorg comes back with a package size of about 22mb which may or may not be about right Im not sure

Can anyone tell me if I'm missing a step of configuring something wrong? Generally speaking I dont even selct a default pacman mirror during install I just let it use whatever it defaults to, but since I was having issues I tried several differant pacman mirrors and finnally the archlinux.org mirror hoping it would work even if it was slow because it's throttled. I'm stuck in this posistion because I decided after enoragement from a friend to try Ubuntu. Which was ok...but I just miss having arch way too much.

prosacpils666 · 2007-07-05 05:46:25

had the same problem, solved when i choose other mirror, try using another mirror

azwethinkweiz · 2007-07-05 05:53:37

Ive tried a couple differant ones but Ill try again

klixon · 2007-07-05 09:40:16

azwethinkweiz wrote:

error: failed retireving file 'current.db.tar.gz' from: No ssuch file or directory

This doesn't look right... I think there should be a name of a mirror following "from"
Are you sure /etc/pacman.conf isn't at fault here?
Does the include line for the current-mirror look right? It is not commented out?

azwethinkweiz · 2007-07-05 21:43:08

No Im not sure that its not /etc/pacman.conf...but I dont think so. Also I had this problem with community before it was with current...and I checked the mirrors for all the repos and all of the servers are uncommented. This has indeed proven to quite a strange problem. But I hope someone can help me, because I cant survive on Ubuntu :-P...its a decent distro but there's only one Arch.

Also Im not really sure what to look for in pacman.conf, other than I can tell all of the repos are uncommented, including testing and unstable because I opened them myself after all these problems and it made no differance. Im in New Mexico if anyone knows or could suggest the closest mirror??

Last edited by azwethinkweiz (2007-07-05 21:45:12)

klixon · 2007-07-05 22:50:44

you could post it here. Then we all can have a look-see
is the rankmirrors script not working for you? That should sort the mirrors by speed

Last edited by klixon (2007-07-05 22:51:41)

Preacher · 2007-07-06 06:34:26

Once you have resolved the sync problems, it may be worth using WGET for downloading. Read this wiki

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … erformance

Obviously you still need to find the best mirrors.

azwethinkweiz · 2007-07-06 20:35:25

klixon wrote:

you could post it here. Then we all can have a look-see
is the rankmirrors script not working for you? That should sort the mirrors by speed

Well I would indeed post it here except Im trying to install it on THIS machine hehe. SO that makes it a little tough. I've gone over it on the phone with a friend and he seems to think pacman.conf is ok. Communtiy, current, and extra are all uncommented in the file. Which should be all I need for an install right? I usually open up testing and unstable after install but have never needed to before that.

But here's the catch, yesterday I tried the install again. Using the ping command the only thing Im getting responses from now is 192.168.0.1 (my router). I tried google and 4.2.2.2 and wasnt able to ping either. This leads me to believe now that there is some issue with my internet or possibly the DNS. /etc/resolv.conf is configured exactly as I always have had it on Arch.

azwethinkweiz · 2007-07-06 20:37:38

klixon wrote:

azwethinkweiz wrote:
error: failed retireving file 'current.db.tar.gz' from: No ssuch file or directory
This doesn't look right... I think there should be a name of a mirror following "from"
Are you sure /etc/pacman.conf isn't at fault here?
Does the include line for the current-mirror look right? It is not commented out?

I forgot to mention that also. It does say failed retrieving current....from 'such and such a mirror'. It has a line for EVERY mirror than the last line states no such file or directory

Misfit138 · 2007-07-07 19:59:16

Sounds to me like your network is just not quite configured right.
Are you using DHCP or static? If static, did you remove the "!" from the ROUTES="!GATEWAY" line in rc.conf?
Did you add nameservers and search to resolv.conf?
Double check /etc/rc.conf, /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf ?

ataraxia · 2007-07-08 06:00:09

I had this happen to me once recently. When the machine booted, my static network config didn't create the default route for some reason. I restarted the network (with the init script) and it worked fine the second time. I never saw it before or since. A real head scratcher.

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Can not sync any database in pacman after new install

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