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ltortugo

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Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 5

Unable to upgrade packages or system

I'm running an x86_64 system and have had no problems using pacman until about a week ago.  When I attempt to upgrade a package or the system, the download fails between 80% - 92% complete and it cycles through all the mirrors and then gives up.  Here is part of the output from pacman -Syu

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from testing...
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : Success
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from locke.suu.edu : Success
warning: cannot resume download, starting over
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Success
warning: cannot resume download, starting over
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.ibiblio.org : Success
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.neotuli.net : No address record
warning: cannot resume download, starting over
error: failed retrieving file 'libx11-1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.rit.edu
warning: cannot resume download, starting over

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Unable to upgrade packages or system

ignore:  I didn't notice you were using testing.

Last edited by loafer (2009-10-18 19:24:40)

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ltortugo

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Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 5

Re: Unable to upgrade packages or system

I've been manually downloading the packages that pacman fails on and the rule seems to be that if the package is under 500K or so it will download fine, between 500K and 1M maybe, but will probably abort at around 90% and then proceed to the next mirror and abort at 90% and so on.   Packages above 1M fail around 90% on all mirrors.  I'm currently just manually getting the packages that fail and hoping once the upgrade completes it will be fixed but I have no idea what's going on.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: Unable to upgrade packages or system

Perhaps trying an upgrade of pacman will give a better result.

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ltortugo

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Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 5

Re: Unable to upgrade packages or system

I've re-installed pacman ( it was up to date ) but it doesn't change anything.

ltortugo

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Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 5

Re: Unable to upgrade packages or system

I just downgraded pacman from 3.3.2-1 to 3.3.0-3 ( 9-1-09 from the ARM ) and it seems to have worked.  The downloads pause for a few seconds around 90% but then it completes even on the larger files.  I guess there's a bug in the more recent pacman builds though I don't recall exactly when I started having problems upgrading.  Anyways, thanks for the help.

mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 686

Re: Unable to upgrade packages or system

If you think you found a pacman bug, please report it on the Arch bug tracker.

ltortugo

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Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 5

Re: Unable to upgrade packages or system

Done