Armv6h mirrors offline?

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Armv6h mirrors offline?

Postby keithspg » Wed Feb 16, 2022 5:35 pm

I have been getting this for a few days, now. I can update my armv7l and aarch64, but not armv6l. Is there something down with armv6 or has my install become corrupted? I see this on multiple RPis of the armv6 flavor. I've tried local mirrors as well as the general one and get the same result.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)')
versus this on armv7
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 241.6 KiB 690 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
extra 2.6 MiB 7.18 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
community 5.7 MiB 6.95 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
alarm 92.0 KiB 511 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
aur 8.1 KiB 135 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...')
and this on aarch64
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 227.3 KiB 1292 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
extra 2.6 MiB 7.99 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
community 5.7 MiB 11.4 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
alarm 51.1 KiB 412 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
aur is up to date')

when I do a verbose run of pacman on the armv6, it shows nothing strange:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# pacman -Syuv
Root : /
Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/
Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
Hook Dirs : /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/ /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Log File : /var/log/pacman.log
GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
Targets : None
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)')
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Re: Armv6l mirrors offline?

Postby graysky » Wed Feb 16, 2022 5:41 pm

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Re: Armv6h mirrors offline?

Postby keithspg » Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:16 pm

This is a huge bummer. I did not see this coming. RuneAudio is built for all RPIs and has run on Arch since 2014. We have an armv7 image and an un-released aarch64 image as well, but the armv6 binaries run under both the armv6 and v7 kernel and makes for a nice image that runs on all RPis. We were planing on our next release image with the armv6 binaries in the user space but with 2 kernels (armv6 and armv7) so that it will boot on any RPi. The test image works well. We are in testing right now then I noticed that armv6 will no longer update. It would be a ton of work to switch to RPiOS as a basis... I even have a chroot-ed armv6 on a Pi4B to build our custom packages and a distccd farm to speed it up... Is there any possibility of re-visiting this? :cry:

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Re: Armv6h mirrors offline?

Postby keithspg » Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:07 pm

What about dropping 32 bit armv7 and just keeping 32 bit armv6? There is only one RPi device that currently requires the armv7 kernel to boot that will not boot the aarch64 kernel and that is the first version of the RPi 2b (Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1). There are far fewer of these than the multitude of PiBs and PiZeros out there that only run the armv6 image.
The aarch64 linux-RPi kernel with the 64 bit user space has been rock solid for quite a while. This combo will run on Pi2v2, all b3s, b4s and the Zero 2w. If the armv7 kernel is dropped and the armv6 retained, the arch linux experience will then cover many more of the available devices out there as opposed to dropping the armv6 version.
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Re: Armv6h mirrors offline?

Postby karog » Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:16 pm

Just stop. Did you read graysky's linked post? It is not going to change.

There are more armv7 devices than just RPi's. I have an odroid xu4 that is 32 bit armv7. I would be livid if they dropped that too. In this change I have already lost armv5 support for my pogoplug e02 and armv6 for my two RPi zero W's.

I have accepted this reality as have many others. You should too.
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core.db failed to download - URL error: 404

Postby matthewdrake » Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:14 pm

Hi all, thank you in advance for any help.

I've got ArchARM (armv61) running on a raspberry pi, hooked up to the net by ethernet cable. Works fine but:
I can't update it or install new software. When I try I get:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '> $ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)')

I can however:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '> $ ping -c 3 mirror.archlinuxarm.org
PING mirror.archlinuxarm.org (50.116.36.110) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from archlinuxarm.org (50.116.36.110): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=37.1 ms
64 bytes from archlinuxarm.org (50.116.36.110): icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=36.4 ms
64 bytes from archlinuxarm.org (50.116.36.110): icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=35.7 ms

--- mirror.archlinuxarm.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.683/36.396/37.101/0.578 ms')


I've tried pacman-key to refresh, I've removed /etc/pacman.d/gnupg and re-run pacman-key --init and --populate archlinuxarm
My time is correct and sync'd with ntp

I'm not sure what to try next -- could someone help?

Thank you!!
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Re: core.db failed to download - URL error: 404

Postby karog » Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:53 pm

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Re: Armv6h mirrors offline?

Postby graysky » Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:38 am

MOD NOTE - merged
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