I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch wiki "mirrors" page: Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: # cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup and uncomment mirrors for testing with rankmirrors. Optionally run the following sed line to uncomment every mirror: # sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup Finally, rank the mirrors. Operand -n 6 means only output the 6 fastest mirrors: # rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist The error mysteriously went away. But I do not seen to have rtmpdump installed. After reading about it, I am still not sure what it is, or why it would be needed for rankmirrors. Do the update mirrors use something called RTMP streams? On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Aaron Caffrey <wifiextender@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16/04/15 at 05:26pm, Francis Gerund wrote: > >> Just recently did: >> >> sudo pacmatic -Syuv >> >> and got: >> >> :: Synchronizing package databases... >> error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.localmsp.org : >> Connection >> timed out after 10000 milliseconds >> core is up to date >> error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from arch.localmsp.org : >> Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds >> extra is up to date >> error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from arch.localmsp.org : >> Connection timed out after 10000 milliseconds >> community is up to date >> :: Starting full system upgrade... >> resolving dependencies... >> looking for conflicting packages... >> >> Packages (3) gdm-3.16.1.1-1 libgdm-3.16.1.1-1 llvm-libs-3.6.0-5 >> >> Total Download Size: 8.77 MiB >> Total Installed Size: 38.01 MiB >> Net Upgrade Size: 0.23 MiB >> >> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n >> >> >> So, I chose NO, then per the wiki I updated the mirrorlist, and once the >> mirrorlist wsa updated, I did: >> >> sudo pacmatic -Syyuv >> >> and got: >> >> Root : / >> Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf >> DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ >> Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ >> Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck >> Log File : /var/log/pacman.log >> GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ >> Targets : None >> :: Synchronizing package databases... >> core 121.4 KiB 1167K/s 00:00 >> [##################################] 100% >> extra 1800.4 KiB 4.00M/s 00:00 >> [##################################] 100% >> community 2.6 MiB 4.41M/s 00:01 >> [##################################] 100% >> :: Starting full system upgrade... >> warning: gdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3) >> warning: libgdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3) >> there is nothing to do >> >> Huh? why: >> >> warning: gdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3) >> warning: libgdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3) >> >> I again did: >> sudo pacmatic -Syyuv >> >> and got the same exact result. >> >> Note that at the time this is posted, archlinux.org does not seem to show >> gdm 3.16.1-3 or libgdm 3.16.1-3, >> just gdm 3.16.1.1-1 and libgdm 3.16.1.1-1 >> >> So, what to do? >> > > Hello Francais, > > Generate new ranked mirrors via **rankmirrors -n 30 > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist** > > Make sure that you have "rtmpdump" installed. For more information > please visit https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#List_by_speed > > Best regards, > Aaron Caffrey >
