When I try to sync manjaro repos or install a package using pacman or yay
sudo pacman -Syu
outputs this error:
error: failed retrieving file ‘core.db’ from ftp.free.org : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
I thought it was a mirrors problem, so I used
pacman-mirrors -g
to arrange mirrors list and the error is still showing
my internet connection is good, I verified it with ping www.google.com
and also when I try to use pamac it works fine
so what is the problem ?
sudo pacman -Syyu to force a new package database.
The mirror might be down.
sudo pacman-mirrors -c all && sudo pacman-mirrors -f 10 && sudo pacman -Syu
Same problem 
Same problem appears
Same mirror and same error?
sudo pacman-mirrors -i
and choose decent mirrors.
Not same mirror, the mirror changed but the same error appears
In general this error says that there is a problem with the DNS. It cannot resolve the IP of the Domain. Check your Nameserver.
The content of /etc/resolv.conf is
# Generated by NetworkManager
search home
nameserver 192.168.1.1The ftp.free.org mirror answers as expected.
http://ftp.free.org/mirrors/repo.manjaro.org/repos/
I am 99.99% you are using an old 32-bit Manjaro - correct?
If you run below command and the output says i686 then you are using Manjaro32
uname -a
If so you will never be able to sync because Manjaro32 has been discontinued for good.
There is no repo - nothing - zero - zilch - nada.
Only option is to convert your Manjaro32 to Archlinux32.
This is the output of
$ uname -a
Linux Lenovo-Z51-70 5.8.6-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 3 14:19:36 UTC 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The opertions done by pamac is working, the problem is with pacman only
.i.e.
pamac update
works fine
pamac is using the same mirrorlist as pacman
This is a valid architecture for Manjaro.
What is the content - if any - of
cat /var/lib/pacman-mirrors/custom-mirrors.json
What is the result of running
sudo pacman-mirrors -g
Just first three to seven lines
~ >>> sudo pacman-mirrors -g
::INFO Downloading mirrors from repo.manjaro.org
::INFO Using custom mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
There is no custom-mirrors.json file
The result of
$ sudo pacman-mirrors -g
::INFO Downloading mirrors from repo.manjaro.org
::INFO Using default mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
..... Australia : https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/
..... Austria : http://mirror.inode.at/manjaro/
..... Austria : http://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/
1.411 Austria : ftp://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/
..... Bangladesh : http://mirror.xeonbd.com/manjaro/
..... Belarus : http://mirror.datacenter.by/pub/mirrors/manjaro/
..... Belgium : https://mirror.futureweb.be/manjaro/
..... Belgium : http://mirror.futureweb.be/manjaro/
..... Brazil : https://manjaro.c3sl.ufpr.br/
You said that if pamac works then there is no problem in mirror list, right ?
@megavolt said it is a DNS problem how is that ?
You appear to be on a slow network connection as the default timeout of 2 seconds is not enough.
I don’t think so - the resolving of mirrors is OK even the dots - and only occational response time.
With your network connection it may be necessary to lower the bar - so to speak - as in increasing the timeout - e.g. use 5s instead of the default 2s
pacman-mirrors -g -t5
And to avoid doing the #! you could limit the query by using
pacman-mirrors --continent --timeout 5
Sorry this also didn’t work
In /etc/resolv.conf, try to set directly the nameserver to 8.8.8.8
(or whatever DNS you like).
This is my resolv.conf:
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
Maybe your modem is not routing DNS requests properly.
I configured the resolv.conf file but this didn’t solve the problem 
How I can fix that
Have you reboot your machine, after you edited resolv.conf ?
And… If you click on this link in your browser:
http://ftp.free.org/mirrors/repo.manjaro.org/repos/
does the site open?
When I rebooted, the resolv.conf reconfigured automatically by network manager
The website opened normally but redirected me to http://ftp.free.org and I can manually go to the rest
Any help please ?