Failed to synchronize all databases

Hello!
I am actually using Manjaro for the first time via VM
As fresh start need to make some commands like :
‘sudo pacman -Syy’
and
‘sudo pacman -Syu’
but I encounter some problems I tried to give the maximum informations here throught this :
(tried to put all the logs but can’t post link tried to use a past link still cannot)
What Terminal shows and what are the Lasts mirrors I am using.
I have this follow error at the end
error: failed retrieving file ‘multilib.db’ from ‘LINK’ : Resolving timed out after 10004 milliseconds
error: failed to update multilib (download library error)
error: failed to synchronize all databases
Hoping somebody can help,
Thanks also for your time!

Do you have internet connectivity?

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Yes I verified by the command : ping (websites)

try sorting the mirrors first:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu
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Back after this command so the actual results are :
error: failed retrieving file ‘multilib.db’ from LINK : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed to synchronize all databases

Can you show us a bit more … like which mirror is in use ?

Can’t i am not able to post link but actually using a lot and all of them have this same message and can’t post also a media for now

The first thing you need to do is establish your active pool of mirrors using

pacman-mirrors -c COUNTRY,COUNTRY…

To find a list of valid COUNTRIES

pacman-mirrors -l

Check the status of these mirrors go to https://repo.manjaro.org/. The must be up to date. If not, either try again later or add more mirrors to your active pool.

Read:

The active pool of mirrors is located at “/var/lib/pacman-mirrors/custom-mirrors.json”. I like to refer to “/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist” as the filtered run-time mirrorlist.

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Thanks for you answer too, yeah I just tried it still the same Error, I thought i couldn’t reach the servers so I pinged thoses and every server answered I did your manipulations but still Resolving Timed Out after …
and
Error: Failed to update
Error: failed to synchronize all databases
here is a link to the errors :
bpa.st/HHJQ

It seems you are only querying ftp mirrors?
Lets try again with resetting everything:

sudo pacman-mirrors --country all --api --protocols all --set-branch stable && sudo pacman -Syyu

I will try it I will keep you in touch in few of what’s happening

Hey,
here you go, that didn’t work
Details : bpa.st/7G6A

  1. Edit “/etc/pacman-mirrors.conf”
  2. Uncomment Protocols and change it to Protocols = https
  3. Save it and run pacman-mirrors -c Austria,Germany,France
  4. Now run the commands that @cscs mentioned in #3

NOTE: Change the country list as you see fit. You can get a list of valid countries with the command pacman-mirrors -l or the long form pacman-mirrors --country-list. At this point limit the set of mirrors to a small number, just so focus can be brought to the problem.

My Snippet: pacman-mirrors -c Austria,Germany,France
  1.645 Austria        : ftp://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/
  1.607 France         : https://mirror.oldsql.cc/manjaro/
  0.850 France         : https://manjaro.mcofficer.me/
  1.173 France         : https://manjaro.ynh.ovh/
  ..... France         : ftp://ftp.free.org/mirrors/repo.manjaro.org/repos/
  1.099 Germany        : https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/
  1.020 Germany        : https://manjaro.re/
  ..... Germany        : ftp://manjaro.re/
  1.226 Germany        : https://mirror.atysleaks.org/manjaro/
  2.326 Germany        : https://mirror.23media.com/manjaro/
  ..... Germany        : https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/
  1.898 Germany        : ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/
  ..... Germany        : ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/manjaro/
  0.892 Germany        : https://mirror.netzspielplatz.de/manjaro/packages/
  1.935 Germany        : https://mirror.netcologne.de/manjaro/
  0.920 Germany        : https://manjaro.moson.eu/
  0.866 Germany        : https://manjaro.moson.org/
My Snippet: grep Server /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Server = https://manjaro.mcofficer.me/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://manjaro.moson.org/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://mirror.netzspielplatz.de/manjaro/packages/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://manjaro.moson.eu/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://manjaro.ynh.ovh/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://mirror.atysleaks.org/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://mirror.oldsql.cc/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = ftp://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://mirror.netcologne.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://manjaro.re/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = ftp://ftp.free.org/mirrors/repo.manjaro.org/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = https://mirror.23media.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Server = ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch

One thing I don’t understand. I’ll take one mirror from your output:

## Country : Ukraine
Server = https://fastmirror.pp.ua/manjaro/

I assumed this was the content of your “/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist”. But in my “/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist”, it looks like:

## Country : Ukraine
Server = https://fastmirror.pp.ua/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch

Where’s the stable/$repo/$arch go? :slight_smile:

I know this entry is old, but the original problem was Resolving timed out, or maybe this entry.

@thunder, in this forum (I searched for “resolving timed out”), found a solution:

There’s some hits in the archived forum too.

There is a wiki page, pacman troubleshooting, but unfortunately it doesn’t contain this issue.

@maminelahiala I can’t wait to hear what your final resolution turns out to be.