raymac46 Posted November 14 Posted November 14 I've been running Debian Testing for a long time on my old Thinkpad. If I run apt update, sometimes I get only 10 packages or less to upgrade. However, if I go through testing and selecting a different mirror, then apt update gives me 1000 packages to update. Same distro, wildly different results for apt. Maybe sunrat has some idea why this would happen. Quote
securitybreach Posted November 15 Posted November 15 35 minutes ago, raymac46 said: I've been running Debian Testing for a long time on my old Thinkpad. If I run apt update, sometimes I get only 10 packages or less to upgrade. However, if I go through testing and selecting a different mirror, then apt update gives me 1000 packages to update. Same distro, wildly different results for apt. Maybe sunrat has some idea why this would happen. Some mirrors may be out of date, it does happen. Quote
sunrat Posted November 15 Posted November 15 What SB said. IIRC the primary mirrors are synced every 6 hours. If you hit a secondary mirror it may be slower or occasionally they just stop hosting Debian repo. Generally just try again a bit later. Most reliable way seems to be to use the recommended load balancer address in sources - deb.debian.org rather than any specific mirror. 1 1 Quote
Hedon James Posted November 15 Posted November 15 8 hours ago, sunrat said: What SB said. IIRC the primary mirrors are synced every 6 hours. If you hit a secondary mirror it may be slower or occasionally they just stop hosting Debian repo. Generally just try again a bit later. Most reliable way seems to be to use the recommended load balancer address in sources - deb.debian.org rather than any specific mirror. I think this might explain Ray's issues with Endeavour OS also. If he's experiencing this issue with Debian Testing, it's logical to assume Arch has the same issue. And this seems to be corroborated in some troubleshooting links on his Endeavour thread. Ironically, Ray speculated he had a mirror issue that was corrupting pacman. So far, all evidence indicates he was right. He tossed a theory in that general direction and appears to have somehow hit the bullseye. It's not confirmed yet, but looking that way... 1 Quote
raymac46 Posted November 15 Author Posted November 15 I *did* get one instance of pacman corruption with EndeavourOS in Vbox, and that was after I tried REFLECTOR to optimize the mirrorlist. There are other issues such as faulty VM video drivers that cause the GUI to crash or halt. Arch and EndeavourOS have been rock stable for me when installed on bare metal, but I've never been lucky with any Arch or Arch-based distro in VirtualBox. There just seem to be too many moving parts to keep them stable. The stable Debian-based distros always work better for me in VBox. 1 Quote
raymac46 Posted November 15 Author Posted November 15 Switched my sources.list to deb.debian.org and we'll see how it goes. 1 Quote
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