absolutely. i’ve tried this on two x86 systems as well, my desktop and laptop. if there’s no quick fix or obvious problem, i’m not above doing a full reinstall to fix this.

i’ll spin up a vm to test too

output:

Server = https://arch.mirror.constant.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://us.mirrors.cicku.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://america.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.vectair.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://arch.hu.fo/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://archmirror1.octyl.net/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirror.theash.xyz/arch/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://us.arch.niranjan.co/$repo/os/$arch

no luck. still getting: error: target not found: python-polib

giving this a try: sudo reflector --latest 10 --protocol https --country 'United States' --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist