‘reflector-simple’ can’t find mirrors suddenly. Previously it was working as expected. I used HTTP and HTTPS protocols, but none are working now.
My pacman -Sy command is working without any problem. It uses the mirror which was previously selected without any problem. The mirror is not out of sync.
you might want to add India to your mirrors as an alternative if the Bangladesh mirrors are too slow or not available.
If I add a Bangladeshi mirror by editing the mirror list, it works without any issue.
The problem is that reflector-simple is failing to find any Bangladeshi mirror.
I was trying to add both BD and Indian mirrors. But reflector-simple simply fails at finding any BD mirror.
You could try increasing the “Download timeout” and see if it will work.
Also you could try the command line tool reflector: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector and see if that works.
sudo reflector --verbose --country 'Bangladesh' -l 5 -a 100 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[sudo] password for md:
error: no mirrors found
This happens with the command line tool reflector.
What does
rate-mirrors arch
return?
I find it to be much more reliable than reflector and much simpler than reflector-simple 
There’s no need to fuss with geography, you normally just want a couple of mirrors that are up to date and you have a fast connection to them.
If you find good mirrors with rate-mirrors, just save the stdout to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:
rate-mirrors arch | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
That’s quite odd!
Same command line with the only difference of using India instead of Bangladesh works just fine.
That is odd.
Do you have a working mirror from Bangladesh already in your mirrorlist?
Trying to generate a mirrorlist for Bangladesh at: https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ yields only one mirror:
##
## Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
## Filtered by mirror score from mirror status page
## Generated on 2022-07-21
##
## Bangladesh
#Server = http://mirror.xeonbd.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
This is a working mirror. Did you generate it using reflector-simple?
It works but can’t rate BD mirror.
Great, problem solved!
So what? Why do you care about using a mirror that is in Bangladesh?
There seems to be only one mirror in Bangladesh so I don’t get the point of rating it.
Also:
http://mirror.xeonbd.com/archlinux/ http Bangladesh HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error 2022-07-20 20:20 1
Check here: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
reflector only returns mirrors with a completion percentage of 100% by default.
If you check the mirror status page, you can see that the bangladesh mirror is not at 100% so it is not included.
If you pass --completion-percent=90, it will show up at the time of this posting.
It’s getting there!
http://mirror.xeonbd.com/archlinux/ http Bangladesh 98.5%
reflector --verbose --country 'Bangladesh' --completion-percentage=90
usage: reflector [-h] [--connection-timeout n] [--download-timeout n] [--list-countries] [--cache-timeout n] [--url URL] [--save <filepath>] [--sort {age,rate,country,score,delay}] [--threads n] [--verbose] [--info] [-a n] [--delay n]
[-c <country name or code>] [-f n] [-i <regex>] [-x <regex>] [-l n] [--score n] [-n n] [-p <protocol>] [--completion-percent [0-100]] [--isos] [--ipv4] [--ipv6]
reflector: error: unrecognized arguments: --completion-percentage=90
There seems to be a typo:
--completion-percent
Yes. Indeed.
Thanks to all for their support.
@mdintisar thanks for marking my post as the solution but the the credit is due to @dalto for their explanation of the working of reflector and pointing out the --completion-percent option.
Please consider marking their post as the solution of the topic.