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Sternmull

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 22

Lots of "error: failed retrieving file" stop me from update

Hi,

yesterday i did my regulary "pacman -Syyu" to bring the system up to date. It downloaded a lot new of packages (around 400MB) and then there where a lot of packages that could not be downloaded. At the end i get this:

sudo pacman -Syyu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core                      36.1K  385.5K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
extra                    442.7K  751.5K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
community                369.7K  955.6K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (90): libpng-1.4.0-2  cairo-1.8.8-2  ... [a lot more]
Total Download Size:    89.13 MB
Total Installed Size:   1443.49 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...

[... lots of lines like the following]
error: failed retrieving file 'pycairo-1.8.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'pycairo-1.8.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.hosteurope.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'pycairo-1.8.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'vlc-1.0.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'vlc-1.0.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.hosteurope.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'vlc-1.0.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

So some packages could not be downloaded for some strange reason (i never had such error messages before). That is not so nice, but ok it may be. But what is absolutely not ok: I can not find a way to install the packages that where sucessfully downloaded. For example libpng: I am pretty sure it does not depend on any package thats download failed.

Now i have two questions:
1. How do i install all the up to date packages that i downloaded?
2. Will the download-errors go away when the Mirrors get updated or do i have a configuration problem?

Thanks in advance.

anti-destin

Member

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 234

Re: Lots of "error: failed retrieving file" stop me from update

read this: http://www.archlinux.org/news/482/

you could always try other mirrors in the meantime.

Sternmull

Member

Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 22

Re: Lots of "error: failed retrieving file" stop me from update

Thanks for the answer. So i simply missed the news

andrewjames

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From: Canada, Ontario, Toronto

Registered: 2009-06-09

Posts: 19

Website

Re: Lots of "error: failed retrieving file" stop me from update

at least we can reply intelligently.

i use xfce4,  will someone rebuild those packages then serve them.  I cannot use X11, graphic interface until then

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andrew james

Parter

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From: Kiev, Ukraine

Registered: 2010-01-31

Posts: 22

Re: Lots of "error: failed retrieving file" stop me from update

Try the mirror at kernel.org it worked for me today