Upgrade failure

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I am having an issue with the current update. Here is the message I get:

error: failed retrieving file 'dotnet-sdk-9.0.4.sdk105-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirrors.gigenet.com : Operation too
slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
error: failed retrieving file 'discord-1:0.0.94-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirrors.gigenet.com : Operation too slow. L
ess than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
error: failed retrieving file 'linux-firmware-mellanox-20250408.c1a774f3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig' from mirrors.gigenet.c
om : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
warning: too many errors from mirrors.gigenet.com, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file 'qt6-webengine-6.9.0-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig' from mirrors.gigenet.com : Operation too
slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

do I need to update the mirrors?

Mod edit: Added code formatting — 3 backticks above and below pasted text.

2

Yes, and it seems you already knew the answer.

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The connectivity/speed of the connection to and from the servers does change over time.
I update the list of mirrors almost every time before I attempt to install something or do an update.
You can and even should do it regularly.

Arch has a few ways to automate the process, one of them is running “reflector” as a service, so you don’t even have to think about that anymore.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector

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Thank you I will check on reflector.

5

So do I, and I recommend that everyone should do this every time before performing any bundled update.

For individual packages, you only need to do it if you really experience debilitating delays, but for a bundled update it is highly recommended.