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RPi / Arch Linux.. pacman error 404, too slow/?

Former Member

First post here, hope I'm putting it in right place.

I received a Raspberry Pi as a gift.  I think it's a model B rev 1.0. 

I loaded up an 8GB SD card with Arch Linux, and set up the network, and expanded the SD card to use the full size.

I did NOT add a swap partition after expanding the size.

 

I then decided to try to use pacman to download a couple programs.

When I first tried pacman, it gave an error very quickly,  which I can't remember. I then googled, and found a post which indicated that I needed

to first set up pacman via a

pacman-key --init

command to set up the pacman files.  When I did that it started out saying that it didn't find some file, then went on saying it was creating it.

It then seemed to do nothing. I let it run for 2 or 3 hours. I did a ps -A which showed that it was still running, but on doing a top command, I didn't see any activity

from that process, so I finally canceled out of it.

After leaving the process, I once again tried to use pacman to grab a couple programs.  This time, it found the programs, gave me an option to say "Y" to install it, and then started the download process, however then I got these error 404 messages, saying that less than 1 kB of data transferred in 10 seconds, so transfer was terminated.  One of the programs I tried this on had several dozen files to download.  Most did as described, giving the error 404, but others were sucessful, indicating rates of a few Mbps. But since all the files weren't downloaded, the installation failed.

   Question is WHY? 

I thought perhaps my SD card isn't fast enough, but I tested FTP transfers to/from the card, and it indicated speeds of around 7 Mbps. 

My lan is connected to the internet via an 11 Mbps WildBlue Exede sat internet system, and it worked fine downloading files to a desktop with Ubuntu, via it's manager.

Is it possible that I need to install a swap partition? If so, how is that done?

Is it possible that I need to repeat the pacman-key --init process, and if so, what did I do wrong to cause it to hang?  

Any other ideas?

Thanks for any help.  The Raspberry is working great other than this, and I'm sure I can get by without pacman, but I'm confused re what I'm doing wrong.

I asked this question on another forum as well.

  • Did you change the mirrors and check the down loading? or use wget to down load the packages. see pacman.conf for details.

  • Update. Sorry to update so fast, but above post was based on what I did yesterday, and I just decided to try again and attempt to get some files via pacman, after a reboot.

    Today, I still get error 404, however I no longer get the message telling me that the transfers are too slow.

    So maybe today speed is not an issue, but I don't know what error 404 is.

  • in reply to Former Member

    to KGAS

       Thanks for replying.

    I'm a complete newbee to using pacman, but have used the Ubuntu equivalent a few times, but that was already set up.

     

    Re the mirrors, I just now changed from the default mirror to a closer mirror (Va, US).  Tried it again, still got same result with error 404.

    Not getting too slow message.

    I haven't used the wget command.  I was considering also downloading via web to a windows computer, but was trying to learn how to use this pacman thing.

     

    Thanks for reply.  I'll read through the .conf file and see if I can see anything.

  • in reply to kgas

    Thanks for pointing me in right direction.  I was looking through all the related files, and then found at another site that error 404 was a file not found error. 

       I looked at the dependencies listed when starting the transfer, and the list of files it was trying to download, then I used a browser to actually go to the mirror site, and I found that pacman was trying to download a version of the various files that weren't actually at the mirror site.  The mirror site had a slightly older version of the files, and I guess returned the file not found error. 

     

    Anyway, I guess I don't understand how this pacman thing would ever work if all these necessary files keep changing versions all the time.   I also don't have any idea of what was causing the "too slow" errors I was getting yesterday, but I guess whatever it was, it's not an issue now.

    Anyway, I feel better about things not working now.  Thanks for responding.  I guess I have some more learning to do.

     

    Thanks.

  • in reply to Former Member

    All what you need to do is to update your repository  by running (as root): pacman -Syu

    That should solve your problem and you can now install what you need without having 404 error.

  • in reply to ghoul

    Thanks.  Yes, I finally figured that out with some help on another forum, and forgot to followup here.

    Finally got it going, but ran into other issues, and am now trying a couple other systems, but will definately get back to ArchLinux. 

    Thanks.