Housekeeping #1600
sort out mirrors and 404 errors
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Description
What happens:
Person tries to: pacman -Suy
indexes for repos get updated ( -Sy part)
but when it tries for the update there are massive 404's because files not on server
see: http://freemor.homelinux.net:16019/~freemor/pastebin//nT5srZSbWrl2TJhcDWGJOJfnkvV8gBiv4eIUYqjuHr0TqRxHUGsLwoLpbp2RA4B.txt
for sample output
Expected behavious:
indexes ( -Sy ) would not get updated until files actually arrive on the mirrors for the ( -Su ) part.
Subtasks
History
Updated by freemor over 5 years ago
Does indeed seem to be a problem with https://redirector.parabola.nu/$repo/os/$arch
when I comment that out and pacman -Syy followed by pacman -Su
the list of updates gets much smaller and the 404's disappear.
Updated by freemor over 5 years ago
Seems it is not just redirector but repo.parabola.nu that has the issue:
Tried pacman -Suy
got 404's
commented out everything but repo.parabola.nu in mirrorslits
pacman -Syy to refresh index
pacman -Su
... and 404 on all the same packages that were 404ing with the default mirrorslist
Paste of the output:
Updated by bill-auger almost 5 years ago
- Subject changed from Not infrequent 404 errors on: pacman -Suy to sort out mirrors and 404 errors
linking issue "alfplayer mirror not responding" to this one - because it seems clear the mirror lists need to organized, prune, and/or correlated
the alfplayer mirror is not responding http://alfplayer.com/parabola/iso/
i think this server has been down for quite some time - do we have contact info? should it be removed from the list?
Updated by bill-auger almost 5 years ago
the archlinux32 mirror mirror.js-webcoding.de has been down for some time
is that defined in the parabola redirector? or does upstream need to handle that?
Updated by bill-auger almost 5 years ago
- the downloads page lists the new umu mirror but not the isacdaavid mirror
- the pacman mirrorlist lists the isacdaavid mirror but not the new umu mirror
ftp.acc.umu.se
parabola.isacdaavid.info
Updated by nRoof almost 5 years ago
The mirror.js-webcoding.de appears to be retired, see this mailing list thread:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-mirrors/2017-November/000714.html
Updated by isacdaavid almost 5 years ago
bill-auger wrote:
the downloads page and the pacman mirrorlist are not fully correlated:
- the downloads page lists the new umu mirror but not the isacdaavid mirror
- the pacman mirrorlist lists the isacdaavid mirror but not the new umu mirror
ftp.acc.umu.se was indeed absent from /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. fixed by now.
parabola.isacdaavid.info on the other hand, this is only a low-storage hot cache. it will store on its own any file that it sees requested a lot (as opposed to just acting as a proxy). i'll leave it up to you to decide whether sharing its storage between packages and install images is a good idea. a negative answer was the original motivation for not explicitly listing it in the downloads page.
Updated by isacdaavid almost 5 years ago
- Status changed from open to info needed
bill-auger wrote:
the archlinux32 mirror mirror.js-webcoding.de has been down for some time
is that defined in the parabola redirector? or does upstream need to handle that?
is this still an issue for you? i've been happily using redirector.parabola.nu on i686 for some days now.
Updated by freemor almost 5 years ago
When I installed an i686 machine the other day it was an issue. Pretty much every package 404'd on the first attempt to fetch.
It should be noted that this is not just a cosmetic issue as all the 404s do slow down the install a noticable bit.
Updated by infertux over 4 years ago
I've been getting recurring errors about mirror.js-webcoding.de whenever I run pacman -Syu. Shouldn't it be removed from redirector.parabola.nu?
E.g.:
failed retrieving file 'shadow-4.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from redirector.parabola.nu : Could not resolve host: mirror.js-webcoding.de
Updated by bill-auger over 4 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Housekeeping
yes, it is probably time to look into this again - there have been 2 or 3 new parabola mirrors added since this issue was opened