CC'ing my issue here originally posted on arch-dev-public: I'm getting errors pacman not able to fetch packages from my local mirror with -Syu or packages cannot be found in the db when using -Ss foo. This seems to get fixed with running once -Syy. Whatever the reason is. But fetching issue stays: [root@workstation64 /]# LANG=C pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... testing is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace kde-common with extra/kdebase-workspace? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Remove (1): kde-common-4.1.0-2 Total Removed Size: 0.01 MB Targets (26): qt-4.4.1-1 phonon-4.2.0-2 raptor-1.4.18-1 redland-1.0.8-1 soprano-2.1.1-1 kdelibs-4.1.0-4 gcc-libs-4.3.1-3 rarian-0.8.0-2 lame-3.98-1 a52dec-0.7.4-4 faad2-2.6.1-1 libmp4v2-1.6-1 faac-1.26-1 xvidcore-1.1.3-1 libid3tag-0.15.1b-2 imlib2-1.4.1-1 x264-20080625-1 ffmpeg-20080715-3 xine-lib-1.1.14-2 kdebase-runtime-4.1.0-2 kdebase-workspace-4.1.0-4 gcc-4.3.1-3 hunspell-1.2.6-1 ttf-dejavu-2.26-1 xulrunner-1.9.0.1-2 zip-3.0-1 Total Download Size: 163.84 MB Total Installed Size: 433.84 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from core... gcc-4.3.1-3-i686 23.7M 52.1M/s 00:00:00 [#########################################################################################################################] 100% :: Retrieving packages from extra... raptor-1.4.18-1-i686 390.8K 15.0M/s 00:00:00 [#########################################################################################################################] 100% error: failed retrieving file 'redland-1.0.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from 192.168.0.90 : Command okay redland-1.0.8-1-i686 547.2K 367.6K/s 00:00:01 [#########################################################################################################################] 100% soprano-2.1.1-1-i686 2.2M 22.9M/s 00:00:00 [#########################################################################################################################] 100% error: failed retrieving file 'rarian-0.8.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from 192.168.0.90 : Command okay rarian-0.8.0-2-i686 163.3K 187.2K/s 00:00:01 [#########################################################################################################################] 100% [testing] Server = ftp://192.168.0.90/mirror/packages/i686/testing/ Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist changing to XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u seems to fix it. -Andy