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:: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from va.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org : Empty reply from server error: failed to update core (download library error) extra 428.7 KiB 121K/s 00:04 [######################] 100% community 412.9 KiB 166K/s 00:02 [######################] 100% alarm 3.9 KiB 1667K/s 00:00 [######################] 100% aur 11.1 KiB 1015K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%

I can't update nor install any package. core.db fails to sync.

  • I tried with Google DNS and OpenDNS, doesn't work.
  • pacman.conf hasn't been touched. mirrorlist uses the default geo server but I have tried with each of the servers there.

Any idea what may cause this and how to fix it?

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    Weird. What happens when you do curl http://va.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/? Commented Jul 22, 2012 at 19:13
  • Is that the output from pacman -Sy? Commented Jul 22, 2012 at 19:16
  • Tried reflector? wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector Commented Jul 22, 2012 at 19:18
  • weird, i woke up this morning and things work again! Thank you all for your help. Commented Jul 23, 2012 at 1:14

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This happens if you're unfortunate enough to sync at exactly the same moment the server itself is being updated.

Usually if you wait a few minutes it will start working again when the server is again fully up to date, but it's possible your repeated attempts were causing some sort of caching of the incomplete file to take place.

The fact that it started working the following day makes perfect sense - by then the server was up to date and any caches would have been flushed and updated too.

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