pacman.conf confusion

shining · 2008-03-13 22:17:31

miesnerd wrote:

so i ran pacman -V and as you would guess, i am running 2.9 whatever.
So i guess I need to start all over then. Crap.

You can always try upgrading pacman manually first, using this long pacman -U command I just gave.
If the upgrade goes fine, and then you fix / merge pacman config and mirror list, you should be able to do a normal -Syu using the new pacman.

Last edited by shining (2008-03-13 22:17:49)

miesnerd · 2008-03-15 20:41:53

man, ive just reinstalled the base system from the official cd.
Now, im wondering, since im having the same problems getting dhcpcd to work as i did before (im using university ethernet), can I make a shortcut, and use the arch office install cd to install X, so i at least have a graphical environment to work with?
Maybe, probably, just trying to get dhcpcd to work is my best bet, but now im getting frustrated.

miesnerd · 2008-03-15 20:54:29

in fact, when looking through my previous post where I at least had a graphical enviornemt via using arch office install cd, i noticed that i had problems with the mirrorlist file not being there. Now, i just installed the base system, and its not there, again. what gives, now?

ViolettheConqueror · 2008-04-20 22:55:02

Well i'm having the same problem but have managed to figure it out i'm pretty sure. Those errors you were getting about not being able to access the server look similar to problems I had, try commenting out those servers in your core, extra, community... files.

What I had to do was use the old pacman (and therefor multiple config files) to install the new pacman which deleted the old files and put in its own mirrorlist file (if you have a mirrorlist file you put there delete it or rename it to like mirrorlist.bak or something). When the new pacman installs it will delete the core extra community and unstable files and put in its own mirrorlist file. It will also make a new /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file, its the same as the old pacman.conf file except that all the server= point to mirrorlist so just do "cp /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew /etc/pacman.conf" . After that run pacman -Syy and hopefully everything will work. (if you have server problems try commenting out the problem servers, some just don't seem to work).

It worked for me just now. i used mirrors.unixheads.org... and that seemed to work well (I'm in the US)

kumico · 2008-04-21 21:59:04

maybe you should try using a newer iso.
you are running an outdated pacman, one that's long been incompatible with the current releases.
it was stated previously, and i assume before you re-installed, a work around was given; see #24
here's an updated version

pacman -Ud ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/{gcc-4.3.0-1,gcc-libs-4.3.0-1,libdownload-1.3-1,gcc-libs-4.3.0-1}-i686.pkg.tar.gz

after that, you should have a new pacman,, verify with `pacman -V` it should be Pacman v3.1.4 - libalpm v2.3.1
...
once youve done that, then you do a proper upgrade
`pacman -Syu`
and make sure you read all the messages that come after some pkg upgrades, and follow up on them or you might find your back here complaining about being unable to boot.

if it sounds like too much work, then like i said, maybe you wanna try a newer iso ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/2008.03/i686/

Mr.Elendig · 2008-04-21 22:34:55

Please use code tags when posting output. It makes it easier to read

Anyway, don't use the old iso's. Please use these instead: http://www.archlinux.org/news/389/

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