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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

[SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

I can't seem to get past

└─> yaourt -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...

A couple times it got to "core is up to date" but then was even frozen there until I got home many hours later. I have run -Syy, also pacman-optimize, and I checked my mirrorlist, still the same thing

Appreciate any help, thx!

Last edited by colbert (2009-08-18 19:20:12)

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

Is -Syy faster?

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

Perhaps your internet interface device needs reset?  This was my solution to the same problem...........

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bangkok_manouel

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Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

using wget instead of libfetch may solve that too.

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

Is -Syy faster?

-Syy actually completes the synchronizing, -Syu hangs, so not a matter of faster I suppose but of one works and the other don't

Also my internet connection is fine, and how do I use wget instead of libfetch??

aka_arch

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Registered: 2007-08-17

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

Try selecting a mirror which uses http and not ftp.

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

^^ Genius! That's it! I commented out all the FTP mirrors in mirrorlist, it's going now Thanks aka_arch!!

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

Using FTP here....had the synch problem recur.

Reset the internet modem and retried.  Success on FTP  -Syu.

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TheGrudge

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Registered: 2006-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED]Sits at synchronizing package databases

For me only curl as XFER solved the issue.
Using strace gets me a lot of gettimeofday calls (only libfetch and wget) as well as poll timeouts.
Again, using curl it just runs as usual, but unfortunately curl doesn't seem to have a "resume" option for downloading, also the output is very ugly.
I'd like to fix this problem, but I don't know where to start.
The weird thing: another computer in my network can connect very fast, so it is not a DNS issue.

The difference: My laptop uses networkmanager, the other computer the normal network configuration in rc.conf.
How can I find out what is wrong, and why is it only slow with libfetch or wget?

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