Failed to update - no address record

redsky_ · 2011-02-27 04:58:39

I'm not sure what happened, my wireless just broke.

running "pacman -Syu" gives:

error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.kernel.org : No address record (it gives this for core, extra community, etc..)

Any idea's on how I could fix?

wireless does not work at all. Internet is completely unavailable.

Last edited by redsky_ (2011-02-27 08:41:48)

Inxsible · 2011-02-27 05:33:46

try switching mirrors and see if that works.

fukawi2 · 2011-02-27 08:25:16

I get that when an invalid proxy is set... What is the output of `env | grep -i proxy`?

Also, if your wireless broke, perhaps you genuinely have no network connection?

EDIT: Also, try increasing verbosity with --debug

Last edited by fukawi2 (2011-02-27 08:26:10)

redsky_ · 2011-02-27 08:37:05

fukawi2 wrote:

I get that when an invalid proxy is set... What is the output of `env | grep -i proxy`?
Also, if your wireless broke, perhaps you genuinely have no network connection?
EDIT: Also, try increasing verbosity with --debug

env | grep -i proxy = no output at all.

My network is fine, other laptops are connected.

Edit -----------------

Just thought i should post, wireless does not work at all. Internet is completely unavailable.

Last edited by redsky_ (2011-02-27 08:41:32)

henningphan · 2011-02-27 22:03:48

Hi!
I have seen other posts about this problem but I didnt really understand the solution.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33488

Hmm... fixed the problem by removing pacman (pacman -R pacman) and then manualy coping pacman files into the corresponding folders.
Now pacman is running

what does he mean with manually copying pacman files, didnt he remove them?

Is there a more simple solution to my problem?

when I write pacman -Syu i get this print

:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from dev2.plugapps.com : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from dev2.plugapps.com : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
 core is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db.tar.gz' from dev2.plugapps.com : No address record
^Cerror: failed retrieving file 'extra.db.tar.gz' from dev2.plugapps.com : No address record

Interrupt signal received

fukawi2 · 2011-02-27 22:23:25

redsky_ wrote:

My network is fine, other laptops are connected.
Edit -----------------
Just thought i should post, wireless does not work at all. Internet is completely unavailable.

OK, you've just said completely opposite statements on 2 lines....
If you have no internet on the machine in question, then it makes sense that it can't resolve the A record for the mirror.

shadyabhi · 2011-02-27 23:08:57

By manually copying he means that:-

1. Download the pacman pkg from the repository using your browser or wget or anything & move it to the root directory. (change x86_64 to i686 if you have 32-bit)

http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/pacman-3.4.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz--directory-prefix=/

2. Change your current directory to "/" & then extract it

cd /;tar xfvx pacman-3.4.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Last edited by shadyabhi (2011-02-27 23:10:32)

jasonwryan · 2011-02-27 23:21:25

Before you do anything like that, you might want to pastebin your pacman.conf & mirrorlist...

skunktrader · 2011-02-27 23:49:49

Often "No address record" just means that your network is down. Can you ping google.com successfully?

Inxsible · 2011-02-28 01:02:38

Merging...

henningphan · 2011-02-28 15:14:50

Mine got Solved, some kind soul helped me out in the irc. My problem was that I had in the mirrorlist:
Server = http://dev2.plugapps.com
it should have been:
Server = http://plugapps.com

also i got an arm processor so I shouldnt have added those 3
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686

[henning@Plugbox ~]$ ping google.com
PING google.com (209.85.149.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ber01s02-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.149.105): icmp_req=1 ttl=52 time=35.4 ms
64 bytes from ber01s02-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.149.105): icmp_req=2 ttl=52 time=35.5 ms
64 bytes from ber01s02-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.149.105): icmp_req=3 ttl=52 time=35.5 ms
64 bytes from ber01s02-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.149.105): icmp_req=4 ttl=52 time=35.4 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.451/35.487/35.528/0.136 ms
[henning@Plugbox ~]$

[henning@Plugbox etc]$ cat  /etc/pacman.conf
#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst   = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = arm

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[aur]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
#testar lite
[test]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686

[henning@Plugbox pacman.d]$ cat mirrorlist
#
# PlugBox Linux repository mirrorlist
# Generated on 2011-01-23
#

# Main Server
Server = http://dev2.plugapps.com/arm/$repo

#test igen
Server = http://dev2.plugapps.com

Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686

[henning@Plugbox pacman.d]$

at the bottom of the last 2 codes I wrote #test *
I just tried to solve it.

thanks for the boards help.

Last edited by henningphan (2011-02-28 17:36:50)

SpleenThief · 2011-02-28 16:27:45

I believe this means you have no internet connection. As skunktrader said, try "ping google.com". If you get a response, then the problem is elsewhere. Have you tried the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … install.29 ?

redsky_ · 2011-03-16 04:47:15

fukawi2 wrote:

redsky_ wrote:
My network is fine, other laptops are connected.
Edit -----------------
Just thought i should post, wireless does not work at all. Internet is completely unavailable.
OK, you've just said completely opposite statements on 2 lines....
If you have no internet on the machine in question, then it makes sense that it can't resolve the A record for the mirror.

I don't know what happened there, I don't even remember.

pklaus · 2011-05-03 18:04:09

I had similar problems on my GoFlex Home:

[root@PlugApps NASdata]# pacman -Sy sabnzbd
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                                                                    393.2K  522.0K/s 00:00:01 [##########################################################] 100%
 community is up to date
 aur is up to date
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (11): par2cmdline-0.4-14  python-markdown-2.0.3-5  python-cheetah-2.4.4-2.1  python-3.2-2  python-sgmllib-5.0.1-3  python-feedparser-5.0.1-3
              python-yenc-0.3-2  python2-pyopenssl-0.11-2  unrar-4.0.7-1  unzip-6.0-5  sabnzbd-0.5.6-2

Total Download Size:    10.59 MB
Total Installed Size:   84.16 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'python-3.2-2-arm.pkg.tar.xz' from plugapps.com : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'python-sgmllib-5.0.1-3-any.pkg.tar.xz' from plugapps.com : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'python-feedparser-5.0.1-3-any.pkg.tar.xz' from plugapps.com : No address record
 python2-pyopenssl-0.11-2-arm                                              86.3K  201.7K/s 00:00:00 [##########################################################] 100%
 unrar-4.0.7-1-arm                                                         81.0K  189.4K/s 00:00:00 [##########################################################] 100%
 unzip-6.0-5-arm                                                          111.1K  208.4K/s 00:00:01 [##########################################################] 100%
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (No address record)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

The solution was to stop the transmissiond torrent download daemon. It seems as if the little box could not cope with such a big number of simultaneous open network connections.

yungtrizzle · 2011-05-07 02:16:03

Update your mirrorlists. Before running an update, check your connection with
ifconfig wlan0
to see if you have a valid ipv4 address

pklaus · 2011-05-07 12:18:30

Thanks for you answer. But this wasn't the problem. As I stated below the terminal output, the solution was, to stop the transmissiond daemon. Maybe the maximum number of simultaneously opened TCP connections on this hardware (SoC) was met.

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