Hey all,
This error has been appearing more and more frequently for me and I’d like to see if there’s a way to fix it once and for all. The most recent occurance was me running this command:
sudo pacman -S vivaldi
My normal browser is having issues with a Remote Learning platform I’m using so I’m trying to see if a chromium based browser works better. But when I try to run that, I get this error:
❯ sudo pacman -S vivaldi
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) New Version Net Change
cachyos-extra-v4/vivaldi 8.0.4033.42-1.1 437.76 MiB
Total Installed Size: 437.76 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
vivaldi-8.0.4033.42-1.1-x86_64_v4 is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'vivaldi-8.0.4033.42-1.1-x86_64_v4.pkg.tar.zst.sig' from mirror5.krfoss.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
This has happened multiple times with multiple different packages over the past month. Sometimes it resolves itself, a lot of times it doesn’t. It’s just getting annoying that this same mirror is causing the same problem repeatedly for me.
Other forum posts here suggested re-rating the mirrors with:
sudo cachyos-rate-mirrors
but I’ve run that a few times now and it doesn’t help, same error. I could be wrong but I’d imagine that rate mirrors only measures response time of the server, not the sync level of the mirror right? Which would explain why it’s still being rated even though it returns 404’s when looking for packages.
Is it safe to just remove the mirror from my cachyos-mirrorlist? Or is there a more graceful way of fixing it?