I used to be able to update just fine but now reflector simple is not working and because of that i can not update the mirror list for it or update its packages.
If I try I see this screen.
And if I try from the command line it says this:
Please help me out here.
could it be related to this ? : https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/YAJTCPLDOVE3NHNN252ODZWVSJKE2O6Y/
still with the DDOS? criminy-
If you’d read the link, it clearly states:
This outage is unrelated to the issue with the DDoS attacks that were
happening in the last few days.
I saw DDOS and groaned first then re-read it
Sorry to tell I just used reflector simple and it is working fine here.
maybe 1) update mirrors 2) sudo paccache -r then a 3) yay -Syyu to clear the air and try reflectors again.
Do you really need to update your mirror list? Is there a problem with just updating?
I’ve been using the same stable, US-based mirror for years. I don’t ever rank mirrors.
It depends. I update them once in a while. Here in Germany, we have pretty good high-speed mirrors from universities all around, so the first in the list usually succeeds.
In other parts of the world, due to wars and other situations, mirrors sometimes fail or completely go away, like the one in Kyiv, Ukraine. It makes sense to update more often in that case.
But the OP’s problem surely was the currently unreliable Arch servers. Maybe just wait a while and try again. Or check Arch Server Status first.
Yes, that’s why I asked if the OP specifically needed to update the mirrorlist.
In all likelihood, an update will work fine using the current mirrorlist. Unless the previously-generated mirrorlist fails on all entries…
Looks like the the Arch site is unavailable and that affects mirror ranking tools like
and probably others too.
The website is intermittently down, or sometimes loading slowly. Sometimes very slowly.
i managed to update yesterday, it were normal then.
You can update right now. The outages at archlinux.org do not affect mirrors. Mirrors are independent of the archlinux.org website.
Ranking mirrors with reflector (or refelctor-simple), however, may fail, as they retrieve the latest mirrorlist at archlinux.org/mirrors/status/. If that website is down or times out, reflector will fail.
Hmmm, mine has not been working for like 2 days now.
no candidate packages found for pruning 3) Returns there is nothing to doI update my mirrors just for the sake most of the time, I just feel like I need to (I’m a newbie arch user)
But I have no good reason to do it. I normally do it everyday but from ~2 days ago I noticed it stopped working.
Ah, I had checked that status page but had no idea that the site being down affects those as well
I see.