On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Eliseo Ocampos <roskoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Tried that, no difference. If its something as simple as that, my normal download using wget wouldn't work, would it?
