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I just installed Arch on my machine and tried running pacman -Syu only to have it tell me that it failed to update any repos, retrieve any files, or synchronize any databases. I have an internet connection and I've tried several different mirrors. What's going on?
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hmmm...did you follow the arch wiki on setting up your mirrors? did you uncomment the mirrors you want to use?
what i cannot build, i do not understand
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Grab a fresh mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ and try 'pacman -Syu' again.
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My mirrorlist is up to date and I've uncommented several mirrors.
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Please post the exact error message. You may want to run 'pacman -Syu --debug' too.
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It's difficult to post code here as I don't have a browser on my arch install, but I will do my best.
Last edited by imnotfred (2011-06-14 14:42:11)
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It's difficult to post code here as I don't have a browser on my arch install.
Save the output to a file and move it to a place you have a browser installed.
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db; from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed to update core (No address record)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed to update extra (No address record)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed to update community (No address record)
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from archlinux.suspec.org : No address record
error: failed to update multilib (No address record)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
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Pacman uses the first mirror from the list. Have you tried another mirror?
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I've tried every mirror under 'United States' (not all at once).
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 90#p943390 - I wonder why do you get this typo
Is your Internet working at all - can you ping mirrors etc.?
Edit: Maybe https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 15#p944215
Last edited by karol (2011-06-14 15:03:31)
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mmm yes, I apologize, that typo was on my part. The errors I am getting do indeed say archlinux.supsec.org.
Furthermore, it appears as if I do not have an internet connection, which is odd because I had one during the installation process and have changed nothing. At least I thought I had a connection during installation. I did a Netinstall installation so it wouldn't have let me install without a connection, right?
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True, but you could have changed the host name in rc.conf and forgotten to change in /etc/hosts. Things like that.
Try to see if the network daemon is running.
sudo /etc/rc.d/network restart
Also, that mirror is probably too old. Try another mirror like rit.edu and see if that works. If not, try the 2nd link karol posted which might help since pacman version has changed since the ISO was released.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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hmmmm nothing seems to be working. And I still have no internet.
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did you set the hostname correctly in rc.conf and in /etc/hosts?
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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Yes, they're set to the same thing.
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I had this same problem, check your rc.conf to see if the interface for your network is set.
Mine was completely blank after a fresh netinstall. I set it to eth0 and it works fine now.
Be sure to "/etc/rc.d/network restart" after editing it though.
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