Unable to Update, Transient resolver failure

mahaavedha · 2008-07-24 12:19:45

Hi All,

I am new to Arch, though not that new to Linux:)

I have installed arch succcessfully .
But i get a bunch of Transient resolver errors when i try to pacman -Syy.

the out put looks like this:

error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net : Transient resolver failure.

This gets repeated for extra and community and for all these repos the errors keep repeating for all the mirrors i have updated in the pacman.d/mirrorlist

The final errror is failed to synchronize any databases

1) Trying to update pacman says that it is uptodate.

2) etc/hosts is correct . i can ping local host. and my hostname.

3) networking is fine as long as i can ping with IP address and my other computers are able access the net. so i am not sure where i am wrong.

4)my etc/rc.conf shows the following

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

eth0="eth0 10.0.3.9 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.3.255"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

gateway="default gw 10.0.3.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)

also please note that i am using the latest ISO

i have already followed the following threads in this forum

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47066

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43152

but my situation is not resolved.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Misfit138 · 2008-07-24 12:51:45

Please post the contents of /etc/resolv.conf

fukawi2 · 2008-07-24 13:26:15

Can you ping google.com from that computer?

mahaavedha · 2008-07-25 04:51:49

No i cannot ping any website, but that is because ICMP is disabled from my office network. You see this is a testing system i am working in my office lab. but other systems in the same network can acess google and search( they too cannot ping google or any other web site.)

The contents of /etc/resolv.conf

#/etc/resolv.conf

#search <yourdomain.tld>
#nameserver <ip>

search gavsin.com
nameserver 10.0.2.214
nameserver 10.0.2. 45
nameserver 4.2.2.2
nameserver 4.2.2.1

#End of file

Allan · 2008-07-25 05:04:58

A couple of questions:

1) You are wanting a fixed IP? You have it set up that way but thought I'd check...
2) Does someone have to approve individual computer network access at your office? I have had that at several places of work.

rooloo · 2008-07-25 11:47:27

#/etc/resolv.conf

#search <yourdomain.tld>
#nameserver <ip>

search         gavsin.com
nameserver 10.0.2.214
nameserver 10.0.2. 45
nameserver 4.2.2.2
nameserver 4.2.2.1

#End of file

supposed to be a space in the second nameserver (2. 45)????

edit: Can u ping an IP address??? See if u can bypass the DNS part and make a difference. Can u ping a local networked computer?

Last edited by rooloo (2008-07-25 11:51:21)

fukawi2 · 2008-07-25 13:20:34

mahaavedha wrote:

ICMP is disabled from my office network

If they lock the gateway that tightly, then perhaps they do MAC filtering too?

Can you dig google.com? Ping machines on the internal network (ie, ping from the 'faulty' computer to one of the computers you are testing with that CAN access these sites)

mahaavedha · 2008-07-26 03:52:11

supposed to be a space in the second nameserver (2. 45)????

Sorry my bad.. no it is not supposed to be.

Can u ping an IP address??? See if u can bypass the DNS part and make a difference. Can u ping a local networked computer?

Yes i can ping my gateway and DNS in internal network

1) You are wanting a fixed IP? You have it set up that way but thought I'd check...
2) Does someone have to approve individual computer network access at your office? I have had that at several places of work.

Yes i cant have a DHCP

Yes they need to. But it is already approved. In fact this is a dual boot machine. i have FreeBSD 6.3 running on this machine and it can happily access all the websites.

Can you dig google.com?

i Cant . dig gives command not found is dig not installed in the base installation? ( i guess not ,by this)

Thanks again

fukawi2 · 2008-07-26 05:00:20

mahaavedha wrote:

dig gives command not found is dig not installed in the base installation? ( i guess not ,by this)

Install the dnsutils package and dig will work...

mahaavedha · 2008-07-26 05:37:51

is dnsutils present in the ISO?

if not i cannot install since pacman is not working.

lilsirecho · 2008-07-26 06:49:01

Check the /etc/rc.conf for any missing parens.......

fukawi2 · 2008-07-26 12:13:37

mahaavedha wrote:

is dnsutils present in the ISO?
if not i cannot install since pacman is not working.

Good point...

dnsutils is in core though so it should be on the CD...

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Unable to Update, Transient resolver failure

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