[arch-general] Problem with Transient resolver failure with pacman (Don't Panic)

Abhishek Dasgupta abhidg at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 23:46:13 EDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> I have Archlinux running on one machine with no problems, but the install was
> done a while back. I've just installed it on a new machine that I've built,
> but am having problems running pacman -Sy.
>
> The network setup is ok. I use static IP addresses, and everything is
> correctly set. /etc/resolv.conf has the correct nameserver set, and the
> gateway 192.168.0.1 in /etc/rc.conf is active by removing the "!".
>
> Running pacman -Sy though is constantly giving me a "Transient resolver
> failure" . Pacman -Sy is trying every mirror on the planet, and must have
> worked it's way through at least 30 up to now.
>
> There must be some setting that I havn't got right.
>
> Any suggestions would be most definately gratefully received.
>

Have you tried manually downloading a package from the
ftp mirrors and see if it is working or not?

--
Abhishek




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