Hello there! I am a first-time linux user, no idea what I’m doing at all, mostly googling. Installed fresh Garuda KDE dragonized on Jan 24. Dual boot. All went well until I tried installing snapd or anything from the terminal, it fails to download chaotic-aur.db. Here’s an example:
sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core 138.7 KiB 6.92 KiB/s 00:20 [------------------------------------] 100%
extra 1555.1 KiB 74.5 KiB/s 00:21 [------------------------------------] 100%
community 6.0 MiB 274 KiB/s 00:23 [------------------------------------] 100%
multilib 148.9 KiB 7.42 KiB/s 00:20 [------------------------------------] 100%
chaotic-aur.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx : Could not resolve host: cdn-mirror
.chaotic.cx
warning: too many errors from cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from de-3-mirror.chaotic.cx : Resolving timed out after 10000 m
illiseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from de-4-mirror.chaotic.cx : Resolving timed out after 10000 m
illiseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from fr-mirror.chaotic.cx : Resolving timed out after 10000 mil
liseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from bg-mirror.chaotic.cx : Resolving timed out after 10000 mil
liseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from in-2-mirror.chaotic.cx : Resolving timed out after 10000 m
illiseconds
error: failed to synchronize all databases (download library error)
So eventually I stumbled upon this:
https://status.chaotic.cx/
https://status.chaotic.cx/mirrors
CDN mirror is down, but I saw somewhere that commenting out CDN mirror is not advised (??). I tried and commented it out anyway, didn’t work, reversed changes.
I haven’t done anything to my mirrorlist prior to receiving ‘chaotic-aur.db failed to download’ error (but again, fresh Garuda download).
First I commented out all distant servers (non-EU in my case). No effect. Some EU servers are down on the list above, so I commented them out in /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist
Then I tried leaving only one mirror in my list at a time and then typing upd command. Tried all healthy servers on the list. At first, upd got me this:
[
] × upd
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
chaotic-aur.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file ‘core.db’ from mirror.netcologne.de : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘extra.db’ from mirror.netcologne.de : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘community.db’ from mirror.netcologne.de : Could not resolve host: mirror.netcologne.de
warning: too many errors from mirror.netcologne.de, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file ‘multilib.db’ from mirror.netcologne.de : Could not resolve host: mirror.netcologne.de
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx : Resolving timed out after 14666 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘multilib.db’ from ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de : Operation too slow. Less than 1bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘chaotic-aur.db’ from us-ut-mirror.chaotic.cx : Could not resolve host: us-ut-mirror.chaotic.cx
warning: too many errors from us-ut-mirror.chaotic.cx, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file ‘multilib.db’ from ftp.nluug.nl : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘multilib.db’ from lon.mirror.rackspace.com : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file ‘multilib.db’ from archmirror.it : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)Refreshing mirrorlists using rate-mirrors, be patient please…
Failed to update mirrorlist
Checking for keyring update before starting full system update…
warning: database file for ‘chaotic-aur’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
error: target not found: garuda-hotfixes
error: target not found: chaotic-keyring
After a while, all I get is a short version:
[
:: Synchronizing package databases…
error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for repository)
Refreshing mirrorlists using rate-mirrors, be patient please…
Failed to update mirrorlistChecking for keyring update before starting full system update…
warning: database file for ‘chaotic-aur’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
error: target not found: garuda-hotfixes
error: target not found: chaotic-keyring
In this thread for the seemingly same problem I found the link to the latest mirrorlist:
I checked my list and this one:
https://aur.chaotic.cx/mirrorlist.txt
they seem to be identical.
After I tinkered with my mirrorlist, I saved a copy of it and replaced all text with the one from the link above. Got a different error.
[
:: Synchronizing package databases…
error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for repository)[
:: Synchronizing package databases…
error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for repository)
I restored to the earlier snap (if I understood correct what the snap is). It still errors out on chaotic-aur and updates other packages.
I tried disabling firewall, rebooting, waiting one day, reading every thread I could find, sudo pacman - Sy and -Syu and -Syyu, upd, sudo reflector --latest 5 --sort rate --country germany,france,serbia.
Tried to refresh mirrorlist from Garuda Assistant. Got “reflector: fetching information from www.archlinux.org failed”.
Internet works ok (tho it says something about wi-fi’s “limited connectivity”, no idea, speedtest dot net looks good to me), and other package databases were updating.
Let me guess: everyone else is able to update normally and it’s a me problem?
Please, Linux, at least give me a chance here.