Pacman's synchronization is acting up...

celestialorb · 2009-09-04 02:24:32

I've been having a lot of problems with pacman recently.

The problems first started appearing a few days ago. Pacman has been slowing down for me over the past few days and today it finally came to a halt. The last package I downloaded was xbmc after which I could not run xbmc because "xbmc was not found". I haven't been messing with pacman's configuration or anything, but for some reason pacman is having difficulty synchronizing the package databases. I decided to run rankmirror a few minutes ago just in case it was the server, then tried running pacman -Syy...but it just hangs there with ":: Synchronizing package databases..."

I left it running for about fifteen minutes thinking perhaps my connection is being slow, however this is not the case as I am able to browse the web with normal speeds.

The only thing that I've done that's messed with my local network / internet connection recently was installing samba onto a media server box. I seriously doubt that would've affected anything though.

It just occured to me that I should probably try rebooting...so I'm going to post this and try that to see if it affects it at all.

EDIT: Restarting didn't change anything. pacman -Syy still hangs with ":: Synchronizing package databases...".

EDIT: I just fixed the problem, I uncommented all of the servers in the United States and tried pacman -Syy. Apparently the servers I normally use aren't working for some reason. Normally, I use mirror.rit.edu, mirrors.portafixe.com, gtlib.gatech.edu.

Last edited by celestialorb (2009-09-04 02:38:58)

x33a · 2009-09-04 03:51:16

you can check the status of your mirrors here:

http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

bangkok_manouel · 2009-09-04 04:19:06

just FTR, using a http mirror or using wget instead of libfetch should solve this problem.

TheGrudge · 2009-09-27 23:55:50

Ok this is my result: Pacman is slow with libfetch AND wget (tries to connect for 20 seconds before downloading, for every single package).
Using "curl" as XFER command solves it for me.
But why?

stefanwilkens · 2009-09-28 01:58:06

Simmilar issues here on the surfnet dutch mirror, not quite sure if this is related or isolated

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#1 2009-09-04 02:24:32

Pacman's synchronization is acting up...

#2 2009-09-04 03:51:16

Re: Pacman's synchronization is acting up...

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Re: Pacman's synchronization is acting up...

#4 2009-09-27 23:55:50

Re: Pacman's synchronization is acting up...

#5 2009-09-28 01:58:06

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