On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So I just tried a new install, it works and even got updated the first > time. Left it over the weekend, now that I'm back on it (still quite > bare, nothing much set up yet) I can't seem to get pacman connected to > the mirrors. > > This machine is a university machine and needs to connect via > proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080, so I've set http_proxy and ftp_proxy to > the right values. Also substituted in the actual IP addresses with the > same results. > > What happens is that all the mirrors get the following (with wget > uncommented in pacman.conf, similar results even when not using wget) > Connecting to mirrors.kernel.org|149.20.4.71|:80... failed: Connection > timed out. > > Ironically, when I try to wget the db file itself through wget > http://mirrrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/i686/testing.db it > downloads fine.... Any idea what the problem could be? Hi there, try to add a trailing slash to your proxy URL: proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080/ HTH, Eliseo.
