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Neo1275

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Registered: 2010-08-07

Posts: 6

[Solved] Trying to do kernel update

Hi guys I'm a fairly new Arch user and I've been able to setup a complete Arch system several times but I cannot seem to do a kernel update. I'm trying to update to 2.6.35 in the testing repo but when I do a pacman -Ss kernel26 it will not show anything other than what is in the core repo. I have the testing repo uncommented and listed first in pacman.conf. Also if I run pacman -Syy then -Syu it will not show any kernel updates needed or available. So I'm not sure if there is a step I'm missing or what could possibly be wrong. Any help is appreciated. If you need any more info let me know. Thanks

P.S. I was going to put this in the [testing] forum but this forum seems to get more traffic.

Last edited by Neo1275 (2010-08-07 22:21:48)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] Trying to do kernel update

Try 'pacman -S testing/kernel26'.
Post your pacman.conf.

Edit: I have no such problems.

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing                                       45,8K  146,6K/s 00:00:00 [########################################] 100%
 core                                          35,3K  167,4K/s 00:00:00 [########################################] 100%
 extra                                        457,9K  612,2K/s 00:00:01 [########################################] 100%
 community                                    377,3K  513,8K/s 00:00:01 [########################################] 100%
[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Ss ^kernel26$
testing/kernel26 2.6.35-2 [22,91 MB] (base) [installed: 2.6.34.1-1]
    The Linux Kernel and modules
core/kernel26 2.6.34.2-2 [22,20 MB] (base) [installed: 2.6.34.1-1]
    The Linux Kernel and modules

Last edited by karol (2010-08-07 10:14:22)

Neo1275

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Registered: 2010-08-07

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Trying to do kernel update

Hey thanks for the reply. I'm at work right now, I work 3rd shift, so I can't try it but I will try it later. I'll post my pacman.conf if I run into any problems.

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Re: [Solved] Trying to do kernel update

You did sync before you try to install 2.6.35 right?

Also, since I get the feeling you're just using testing for the new kernel, keep in mind 'cherrypicking' from testing is bad practice. Either you use it all or you stay away from it .

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Neo1275

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Registered: 2010-08-07

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Trying to do kernel update

Hi Karol, I followed your suggestions and I still could not get it to work. So I checked the mirrorlist and I tried uncommenting the very first mirror in the list and commenting out the US/Easynews mirror that I was using and it now shows the newer kernel. I did a full system update and all is well it seems. Thanks for your help though.

Try 'pacman -S testing/kernel26'.
Post your pacman.conf.

Edit: I have no such problems.

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing                                       45,8K  146,6K/s 00:00:00 [########################################] 100%
 core                                          35,3K  167,4K/s 00:00:00 [########################################] 100%
 extra                                        457,9K  612,2K/s 00:00:01 [########################################] 100%
 community                                    377,3K  513,8K/s 00:00:01 [########################################] 100%
[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Ss ^kernel26$
testing/kernel26 2.6.35-2 [22,91 MB] (base) [installed: 2.6.34.1-1]
    The Linux Kernel and modules
core/kernel26 2.6.34.2-2 [22,20 MB] (base) [installed: 2.6.34.1-1]
    The Linux Kernel and modules