Ahhhh. I see. Gnome related. As I’m on KDE Plasma, I’ve not suffered any issues… so far.
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Blaming a bunch of teenagers with too much time on their hand during summer break for writing scripts for DDoS attack on AUR is not cool.
Rather it is the government. It is out to get Arch for its communist leanings and free software. The CIA, FBI and FEMA have brainwashed a bunch of teenage mutant turtles and apes to go after AUR. Their aim so as to create a bunch of animals to train their LLM models which they can report back to their alien overlords. This way the truth about why we never went back to Moon post Apollo would not come out.
Phew. 
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Might be gnome related as I too have no issues on kde plasma
It’s related to the 580 driver as I wasn’t having issues on the 575 drive and more people were having this issue. They have made a fix but it didn’t make it into the released driver version. It’s all in the Nvidia 580 topic I shared.
Most alien craft stay away since they put up that big sign outside Pluto’s orbit saying:
SYSTEM UNDER QUARANTINE!
Highly infectious craziness rules on 3rd planet!
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Seems to be still problematic when trying to update.
Fwiw, I successfully updated two EOS systems yesterday afternoon without issue…. Although one was very slow (Ethernet) and the other zipped right along (Wi-Fi). Go figure. Neither is gnome based. Although I use some kde stuff, they are i3-wm environments. Might have something to do with things. 
So now the main Arch website & forums are down… It seems a script kiddie is having fun ddos’ing and they’re posting comments on reddit like: “You want other parts of the website to offline too, because I have no problem with doing that.” Probably exploiting CVE-2025-8671, big deal, all hail the hacker king!!!1!
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Are these messages to do with the AUR being wonky at the moment?
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❯ yay gamemode
7 aur/lib32-gamemode-git 1.8.1.0.g5180d89-1 (+8 0.00)
A daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS. (32-bits)(GIT version)
6 aur/nsmb-mvl 2.0.4.1-1 (+2 0.00)
A unity-standalone 2-10 player remake of the Mario vs. Luigi gamemode from the New Super Mario Bros DS download game.
5 aur/gnome-shell-extension-gamemode-git 12.0.r2.g4ef8d2e-1 (+8 0.00)
GameMode Status Indicator for GNOME Shell
4 aur/plasma-gamemode-git r6.4d60358-1 (+8 0.10)
Gamemode UI for the Plasma Desktop
3 aur/gamemode-git 1.8.1.0.g5180d89-1 (+8 0.00)
A daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS. (GIT version)
2 multilib/lib32-gamemode 1.8.2-1 (10.1 KiB 31.1 KiB)
A daemon/lib combo that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS
1 extra/gamemode 1.8.2-1 (76.6 KiB 276.1 KiB) (Installed)
A daemon/lib combo that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
Sync Explicit (1): gamemode-1.8.2-1
[sudo] password for jon:
warning: gamemode-1.8.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change
extra/gamemode 1.8.2-1 1.8.2-1 0.00 MiB
Total Installed Size: 0.27 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [------------------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling gamemode [------------------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/4) Creating system user accounts...
(2/4) Reloading user manager configuration...
(3/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(4/4) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
error: reading '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' failed (Value too large for defined data type)
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
error: reading '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' failed (Value too large for defined data type)
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
error: reading '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' failed (Value too large for defined data type)
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
error: reading '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' failed (Value too large for defined data type)
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
~ 9s
Pretty much Arch is under DOS attack. So trying to run updates (pacman, paru, yay, etc) and also trying to fetch new mirrors (reflector and ratemirrors) will intermittently fail to respond. Its like a website being overly busy and timing out.
Just installed EOS via Online Installation and had no issues. Also, I ran updates and installed packages from repository and AUR. No issues. The only issue I had was trying to update mirrors. That didn’t work.
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Intermittent is definitely the key word there. One minute all good, the next, on the wonk. 
Yep, same here, all good except mirror updating.
Informant still not working for me, beside that it’s working since last 2 days
Finally, I’m able to update. However, downloading packages from the AUR is really slow.
When you install and update packages, you are using one of Archlinux’s mirrors. There are hundreds of mirrors out there. They cannot simultaneously DOS hundreds of mirrors so they still work.
Updating and ranking the mirrors requires downloading the master mirror list. The ONLY place that the master mirror list exists is on https://archlinux.org. It’s obvious that they can DOS the one and only https://archlinux.org.
Pudge
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Ah, that makes sense, thanks Pudge.
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And a piece on news:
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Check these yay and paru feature requests 
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