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Eit

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From: Italy

Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 57

Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

Hi all,
in these days I've finally taken in consideration to pass from ubuntu to archlinux to improve my linux skills, so I've decided to install on a vm archlinux x64 (from windows 7 ).
I've managed to install it (with core iso ) without any problem but when I've rebooted and started trying to update my sistem using pacman -Syu after some minutes the output was:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from locke.suu.edu : Connection timed out
error: failed to update core (Connection timed out)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db.tar.gz' from locke.suu.edu : Connection timed out
error: failed to update extra (Connection timed out)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db.tar.gz' from locke.suu.edu : Connection timed out
error: failed to update community (Connection timed out)
error failed to synchronize any databases

I've tried also changing many mirrors editing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist using mirrors taken on the list of active ones but nothing changed, I've even tried to ping www.google.com but everything looked ok...:(

Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 688

Re: Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

Are you sure you've set VMware to access network?
Also copy/paste ping here so that we can see if it really is OK...

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Eit

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From: Italy

Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 57

Re: Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

Thanks for answer,

using ping -c 3 www.google.com

output is

PING www.l.google.com (209.85.135.106) 54(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mu-in-f106-1e100.net (209.85.135.106): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=72.
6ms
64 bytes from mu-in-f106-1e100.net (209.85.135.106): icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=63.
3ms
64 bytes from mu-in-f106-1e100.net (209.85.135.106): icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=34.
0ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2030ms
rtt min/avg/mag/mdev = 34.001/56.661/72.629/16.464 ms

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

Pacman always tries the first mirror listed so try changing the order and then running pacman -Syy.

Eit

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From: Italy

Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 57

Re: Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

I'm not decommenting servers in mirrorlist , I'm just adding on top of the file on of them not to make a mess when I've to edit it again...
btw I've tried with -Syy and the output is the same as before...:/

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

Can you post your mirrorlist please (just the entries that you are trying to use, rather than all of the commented ones).

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quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

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Re: Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

yes. post the output of

cat /etc/pacman.conf

cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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Eit

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From: Italy

Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 57

Re: Archlinux on VMware : can't get pacman to work

As you can see in the first post the server that I've used to make the last try is

Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/os/x86_64

I've used several different servers picking up from the active mirrors status list

output of

cat /etc/pacman.conf