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xisisu

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 3

unexpected error with pacman

Hi. I am new to Arch. I installed it and configured the network.
input: ping www.google.com
it works.
input: pacman -Syy
output: :: Synchronizing package database...
error: failed to update core(unexpected error)
error: failed to update extra(unexpected error)
error: failed to update community(unexpected error)
error: failed to synchronize any database

can anyone help me?
thx very much~       

Last edited by xisisu (2009-03-06 06:24:53)

mikesd

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 788

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Re: unexpected error with pacman

What do you have for your [core], [extra], etc stanzas in /etc/pacman.conf? I had a similar problem where pacman stopped working and I was horrified to see I had been using the main ftp.archlinux.org mirror. I changed it to one of my local mirrors and all was well again. Do you have Server= lines in each of your repos?

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xisisu

Member

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 3

Re: unexpected error with pacman

!!!!!
it works!!!!
I opened the mirrorlist and found it was empty!!!
maybe I configured something wrong before.

So I write some servers in it and it works!

Thanks very much!!       

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: unexpected error with pacman

Better still, install pacman-mirrorlist, and edit as required. It should already be installed, as pacman depends on it.. :?