Pacman???

squiggy · 2006-06-26 20:32:25

I just installed Arch and i cannot upgrade or install any packages cause i when it tries to install anything it gives me :error could not open sync database :extra have you used --refresh yet?

and i cannot update either...it gives me a 550 error.

i know i have the net up and running since i can browse the web with links and all.

any help would be helpful.

squiggy

cactus · 2006-06-26 20:40:02

what does
'pacman -Syu' yeild?

squiggy · 2006-06-26 20:45:57

when it tried to sync anything i get error: could not cwd to whatever: 550 failed to change directory.

it says it cannot connect to any ftp servers even though i know my net is working cause i can ping with no problems

T-Dawg · 2006-06-26 20:54:05

adjust your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/<repo> by moving one up on the top of the list.

squiggy · 2006-06-26 21:05:14

I tried that and it still gives me the same errors,gonna try and install packages from the install cd and see what happens...lol

thank you for the suggestion though

squiggy

phrakture · 2006-06-26 21:19:26

Try more question marks, I think it's working

squiggy · 2006-06-26 21:29:49

ugh.....theres a troll in every board...go back to the bridge you crawled out from under.

phrakture · 2006-06-26 21:34:30

a) Change the order of your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d if you're getting remote errors, then pacman -Syu. Either way it should continue on to the next mirror if there is any sort of error.

squiggy wrote:

ugh.....theres a troll in every board...go back to the bridge you crawled out from under.

b) Check to the left of this text. Read the little snippets under my name.... call me a troll if you like, but you'll come out being the wrong one here.

squiggy · 2006-06-26 21:43:35

well for one those little snippits under your name don't mean anything to me.
second....the question mark comment has nothing to do with the problem i am having.
third....i suddenly found out that i do not have a /etc/pacman.d

squiggy

phrakture · 2006-06-26 21:53:19

No /etc/pacman.d?????????????????????

Looks like your pacman is borked. I'd suggest maybe reinstalling as if pacman failed to install, there's probably other problems as well. You can also get pacman here:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/pacman

squiggy · 2006-06-26 22:00:50

i kinda figured you were gonna say that,so i am gonna try a reinstall and see if that fixes the problem.

tomk · 2006-06-26 22:38:02

tomk (TU) calling Squiggy (New to Board) - you want phrakture (Developer/Forum Adviser/TU) to be your friend, in much the same way as Google is. There are, of course, many differences, one of which is that Google (machine) is unlikely to give a smart answer, whereas phrakture (human) is. You (also human) need to understand this.

If you've been on enough forums to say "there's a troll in every board", then phrakture's post count alone should make you reconsider. If the rankings under his name "don't mean anything" to you, perhaps you should check them out.

A topic that summarises your problem is also highly recommended.

T-Dawg · 2006-06-26 22:53:37

Penguin wrote:

adjust your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/<repo> by moving one up on the top of the list.

I tried that and it still gives me the same errors

phrakture wrote:

Change the order of your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d

i suddenly found out that i do not have a /etc/pacman.d

:?:

can someone explain this to me?

squiggy · 2006-06-26 23:03:02

Thank you Phrakture and Penquin,your help has me up and running in Arch Linux.

Tomk.......nice post lol

Squiggy

phrakture · 2006-06-26 23:08:19

tomk wrote:

tomk (TU) calling Squiggy (New to Board) - you want phrakture (Developer/Forum Adviser/TU) to be your friend, in much the same way as Google is. There are, of course, many differences, one of which is that Google (machine) is unlikely to give a smart answer, whereas phrakture (human) is. You (also human) need to understand this.

human?
Did you mean: hooman
Results for hooman:
...

tomk · 2006-06-26 23:51:59

phrakture wrote:

Results for hooman:

google:hooman

(well, you asked for them )

squiggy · 2006-06-27 00:19:04

lol @ tomk...

but unfortunetly the problem still persists,no pacman.d still...sigh

phrakture · 2006-06-27 00:47:58

I don't think that's possible twice in a row. Are you doing something funky with your partition layout? How are you installing Arch?
Can you post the output of "pacman -Ql pacman"?

squiggy · 2006-06-27 01:15:19

I installed with the cd
used the auto prepare option
and......

pacman /etc/
pacman /etc/abs/
pacman /etc/abs/abs.conf
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.arch
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.extra
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.unstable
pacman /etc/makepkg.conf
pacman /etc/pacman.conf
pacman /usr/
pacman /usr/bin/
pacman /usr/bin/abs
pacman /usr/bin/convertdb
pacman /usr/bin/gensync
pacman /usr/bin/makepkg
pacman /usr/bin/makeworld
pacman /usr/bin/pacman
pacman /usr/bin/sortmirrors.pl
pacman /usr/bin/vercmp
pacman /usr/man/
pacman /usr/man/man8/
pacman /usr/man/man8/makepkg.8.gz
pacman /usr/man/man8/pacman.8.gz
pacman /var/
pacman /var/abs/
pacman /var/abs/local/

there is the output of pacman -Ql pacman

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-27 01:26:32

Download this, with wget or whatever:

ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686 … pkg.tar.gz

And then do 'pacman -U' on it as root.

phrakture · 2006-06-27 01:26:48

I'm confused:

pacman /etc/pacman.d/
pacman /etc/pacman.d/community
pacman /etc/pacman.d/current
pacman /etc/pacman.d/extra
pacman /etc/pacman.d/release
pacman /etc/pacman.d/unstable

/me scratches his head

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-27 01:51:10

Huh, missed that. Suddenly his accusation of trolling strikes me as familiar.

phrakture · 2006-06-27 02:43:37

Gullible Jones wrote:

Huh, missed that. Suddenly his accusation of trolling strikes me as familiar.

Errrm, what? I was displaying what files *should* be there....

T-Dawg · 2006-06-27 03:41:57

I'm highly confused.

squiggy, any possibility of a hard disk failure? If you hadn't said you reinstalled, I would have sugguested checking your filesystem.
Can you run through the sequence of events of exactly what you did again? I'm still not 100% clear on that.

squiggy · 2006-06-27 03:55:01

first i did the auto prepare(partition configuration and i do not get along...lol)
installed my packages(base system)
installed the kernel(2.4 to be exact)
edited a couple files(lilo.conf,rc.conf i believe)
installed lilo
and then rebooted....i might have missed a step but it was pretty straight forward.

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