[arch-general] update error(?)

[Aaron Caffrey]

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