Are you SURE the http_proxy is set when running the pacman command? Try doing something like (also add in the https proxy in case): user@host$ http_proxy='http://proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080' ftp_proxy='...' https_proxy='...' pacman .... I have a one line script that just has (i don't use ftp): #!/bin/bash http_proxy='http://proxy:8080' https_proxy='https://proxy:8080' $* save as pprox and then run: user@host$ pprox pacman .... and it works great. good luck! On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:47:24 +0800 Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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?
