System update downloads stall halfway then proceed 30+ mins later

Issues & Assistance
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Hi,

Fairly new to linux as a whole and definetly new to CachyOS. Enjoying it so far, lots of advantages over Windows.

Getting a persistant bug, everytime I run ‘update’ the downloads start at full speed, then start to slow after 20 seconds, then stop completely for a long period of time. I left my laptop on waiting for 30+ minutes and then they started downloading again out of nowhere. So updates do complete but takes an hour or so to do.

Occurs in any terminal program ‘Konsole’ & ‘Allacritty’.

Occurs on different networks & internet connections.

Is this a known issue, is there any way to debug it.

Thanks

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Mirrors (rate-mirrors), power-saving on wireless networks, network connectivity that sucks?

3

Rated mirrors a couple times. no power saving on wireless netowrks that i can see. Laptop is plugged in and in performance mode. (tell me if im missing something)

Network connectivity is fine, every other device has no issues, including this one except for when downloading update packages.

4

Well that’s what came to my mind….maybe your mirrors just suck?

5

Im getting the same issue, on different devices too. any help would also be appreciated as I’ve tried all the aforementioned troubleshooting steps

6

So it does not matter which mirror?

Nothing like this is noticed anywhere else - any other application or use?

When executing sudo pacman -Syu it should print information during the process .. and normally gracefully moves to the next mirror if there is a problem with current one.

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It seems to have solved itself today and update everything fine.

Hope yours does to, still no idea why that happened.

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I’ve been having weird issues with the system update lately as well. Having to run the sudo pacman -Syu multiple times to get it to stop stalling out or failing to find packages mid-system update.

It’s like the packages indexes are getting updated mid-upgrade and the mirror-side packages are being moved and replaced while the system update is mid-process. Or more likely the index is ahead of what the actual packages the mirror being downloaded from has for available packages.

It didn’t happen for the first few months of running cachyOS , but now it’s a regular issue and I update weekly. So 2-3 out of the 4 times I do a system update monthly, I’ll have to run it 2-3 times because of missing package failures.

I wonder if there are a few mirrors are out of sync. I haven’t looked into how and where the packages are being pulled from specifically and if the initial update/index data is actually correlated with the actual location that the packages are being pulled from. If the mirrors were all perfectly synchronized, it shouldn’t matter but if there are some mirrors ahead or behind, then I could see this misalignment occurring.