On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Nigel Henry > <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have Archlinux running on one machine with no problems, but the install was >> done a while back. I've just installed it on a new machine that I've built, >> but am having problems running pacman -Sy. >> >> The network setup is ok. I use static IP addresses, and everything is >> correctly set. /etc/resolv.conf has the correct nameserver set, and the >> gateway 192.168.0.1 in /etc/rc.conf is active by removing the "!". >> >> Running pacman -Sy though is constantly giving me a "Transient resolver >> failure" . Pacman -Sy is trying every mirror on the planet, and must have >> worked it's way through at least 30 up to now. >> >> There must be some setting that I havn't got right. >> >> Any suggestions would be most definately gratefully received. >> > > Have you tried manually downloading a package from the > ftp mirrors and see if it is working or not? > > -- > Abhishek > > Do you use (netcfg2's) net-profile?
