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simse

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Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 8

[Solved] NONcritical pacman and startx error messages..

Hey guys..

In the process of understanding a simple system (arch, x, xnomad, mc) i have found these small issues: (which i couldnt find answers for)

pacman:
Running pacman always gives: "config file /etc/pacman.d/communication could not be read" But pacman still seem to do its job..

What is this file ?

startx: cant find command 'hostname' on line 127, and i cant find it with pacman. startx seem to continue as planned..

how do i fix it? (i dont like loose ends ;-) btw startx is the original unmodified version..

btw. thanks for the best wiki..

Simon

Last edited by simse (2011-10-12 10:17:22)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] NONcritical pacman and startx error messages..

Hostname issue: please do read front page announcements - http://www.archlinux.org/news/hostname- … inetutils/

Where did you get this /etc/pacman.d/communication from? What's the output of

pacman -Qo /etc/pacman.d/communication

?
How exactly are you running pacman?

Last edited by karol (2011-10-12 07:38:05)

simse

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Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] NONcritical pacman and startx error messages..

Hostname issue: please do read front page announcements - http://www.archlinux.org/news/hostname- … inetutils/

Thanks, that solved this part..

Where did you get this /etc/pacman.d/communication from? What's the output of

pacman -Qo /etc/pacman.d/communication

?
How exactly are you running pacman?

There is an 'Include = /etc/pacman.d/communication' entry in pacman.conf.
is it safe to comment it out? (dunno how it got there though??)

pacman -Qo /etc/pacman.d/communication
error: config file /etc/pacman.d/communication could not be read.
error: failed to read file '/etc/pacman.d/communication': No such file or directory

pacman -S inetutils
error: config file /etc/pacman.d/communication could not be read.
{blabla - downloading - yes - all good and done}

as mentioned, it doesnt seem to be a big problem, but it shouldnt complain about it then :-)

Simon

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] NONcritical pacman and startx error messages..

Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

is the link to your mirrorlist, there's no /etc/pacman.d/communication file by default and no such 'Include' in pacman.conf, so you must have created it yourself - you can remove this line.

simse

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Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] NONcritical pacman and startx error messages..

Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

is the link to your mirrorlist, there's no /etc/pacman.d/communication file by default and no such 'Include' in pacman.conf, so you must have created it yourself - you can remove this line.

Ah, must have fat fingers or something.. Thanks alot for looking into these small issues ;-)

cheers