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FS#15816 - pacman fails to download specific package file from repository
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Pacman
Opened by Doug Penner (DarwinSurvivor) - Wednesday, 05 August 2009, 20:05 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 07 August 2009, 08:43 GMT
Opened by Doug Penner (DarwinSurvivor) - Wednesday, 05 August 2009, 20:05 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 07 August 2009, 08:43 GMT
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DetailsDescription:
PacMan failed to doanload the dia package from 2 different mirrors. Other packages install fine, only dia seems to be affected (as far as I can tell). The first time I tried to install it (pacman -S dia), pacman segfaulted (sorry, I forgot to copy the text, but it was definitely a segfault). Every time after yeilded the following error (but no segfault). failed retrieving file 'dia-0.97-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca : Success I was able to manually download the package using wget, then run pacman -U <downloaded_file> and that worked fine. Additional info: Package Version: dia-0.97-2-x86_64 Mirrors tested: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Steps to reproduce: pacman -S dia Note: Please see debug.txt for more details. 
debug.txt
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This task depends upon
debug: existing file found, using it
If you remove the file from the cache, does it work?
And the first segfault happened during downloading?
FS#15657(trying to download partial file without checking if it wasn't changed first)
but in my case it was error: failed retrieving file ...: Requested Range Not Satisfiable
and here it is error: failed retrieving file ... : Success
I did a "sudo rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*" before running it (this time).
Xavier: I believe the segfault happened while it was trying to "install" the package (after downloading), but I am not sure (I accidentally closed the window before I could copy the output). As for deleting the cached file, I installed dia manually (wget'd the file), but the gparted attempt does not show that error.
I have attached my terminal session to this comment.
It was probably just sync-ing.
I wonder if we will ever make any progress on these download issues...
http://archlinux.unixheads.org/extra/os/x86_64/gparted-0.4.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
I just checked that the db of this mirror is also up-to-date.
You just need -Sy
I'll keep in mind to -Sy if I have problems in the future.