I’m trying to install in a parallels VM following this tutorial on YouTube:
I had no problems up until I tried to run the endeavouros install script. If I do not modify the mirrors file (so using http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo), I consistently get 404s on the Firefox package.
If I use the California mirror, I fail with 403s about 220 packages into the first pacman sync.
pacman -S xorg-server fixes it for me as well… Firefox is missing of course, but if I switch the mirror list to somewhere else, syncing the package succeeds and Firefox installs fine after that.
My network setup is pretty vanilla, no VPNs, unusual firewall rules, proxies, etc. I’ve installed non-ARM endeavour just fine without any issues syncing packages.
This is a redirector service so pushes requests to various mirrors in the pool - some may be out-of-sync, hence occasional issues downloading packages.
Sounds like an incorrectly-configured mirror server, or it has blocked you for some reason. Check you can load it in a browser (I can).
I think the 403s on the ca mirror are due some form of rate limiting. After the installer fails, I can wget the package and install it with pacman. For posterity the sequence of events are:
I can successfully sync these packages manually after the install completes.
The instructions recommend changing ParallelDownloads: “Uncomment this line by removing the leading # and if desired, change 5 to 8 or however many parallel downloads you want to run. For my ISP 8 works well.” https://arm.endeavouros.com/endeavouros-arm-install/
I commented out the line (so disable parallel downloading) and was able to fully complete the install on the CA mirror with no errors.
if this is normal, the installer should probably try other mirrors, or at least fail more loudly. If someone walks away during the install and comes back, the installer will appear to have completed normally but they will end up with a broken install
Last modified date on IL mirror for extra.db is 2021-09-25 11:26, the Firefox package on the CA mirror is 2021-09-24 22:54. There are other packages that have a similar last modified date on the CA mirror that are missing in the IL mirror. I don’t know enough about the package system to know if this is bad or not, but seems worth mentioning. (this may be an upstream thing)
I’m not sure there’s much reason to manually adjust this, pacman will adjust the number of concurrent downloads depending on download speeds (e.g. at work it will run five or six concurrently, at home it sticks to one).
I marked my previous comment as a solution. For what it’s worth, it looks like the IL mirror has the missing files now, and I get a clean install out of using it now.
Just a suggestion… if it’s normal for a mirror to get into a broken state (it was in this state for at least 12 hours), it would be more helpful if the installer bailed out with a clear error, rather than giving the appearance of success but leaving the machine with subtle (or not subtle) problems. Or even better, be robust enough to try another mirror.
Also the only reason I changed ParallelDownloads is because that’s what the instructions said to do… maybe it’s worth mentioning there when suggesting to do this that some mirrors won’t play nice with this option. From the man page (https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html), by default (left commented out) it would just use a single download stream at a time. As far as pacman adjusting the number of concurrent downloads, I don’t think a client like pacman would know that it’s being rate-limited by the server from 403 error codes. (It probably should have been returning a 429 instead).
(p.s. thanks to everyone who has worked on this project… aside from some bumps with syncing down packages when using ARM, the first experience with EndeavourOS has been nice!)
I’ve only had it up and running for a few hours and I’m very much a novice with desktop linux (Some familiarity with “server” linux, usually I’m working with teams that have dedicated ops/network engineers. This is a learning experience ). So I’m probably not the most qualified to say, but so far I haven’t noticed anything odd.
I think for anyone wanting to try out linux on arm (maybe to test/improve it), or to have it run some services locally like a DB server while doing development in macOS, it would be fine. (Although they may have a smoother experience on a distro that parallels “officially” supports.) I was able to install/run their guest agent just fine in arch and endeavour.
