' error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist ' { SOLVED }

wesley_of_course · 2010-01-13 05:11:41

Asleep at the terminal , (me) , googled a bit and this popped up ;
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61411 ,
yes I was updating and not paying attention , again.

[wesley@ratdog ~]$ yaourt -Syu
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing                   16.2K  198.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 core                      35.8K  281.7K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 extra                    438.5K  992.9K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 community-testing          4.5K  186.3K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 community                374.2K  864.0K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 archrepo                  25.3K   43.4K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 archstuff is up to date
 arch-games is up to date
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist

I know theres a fix but haven't run into it yet , still learning . Thanks

Last edited by wesley_of_course (2010-01-15 02:43:01)

wesley_of_course · 2010-01-13 05:20:04

Warning
Most of the modules in perl-xyne-arch have been rewritten for version 1.0. This
has led to changes in several packages which provide frontends to these modules,
most importantly powerpill, pkgd, rebase and reflector.

Please check the help messages and man pages of these packages for option and
configuration changes.
/sbin/ldconfig: libraries libcurl.so.3 and libcurl.so.4.1.1 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.

Where'd I not read at to miss the help messages options / output ?

Not an intentional bump , I thought maybe more info was required .

archlinuxfr/yaourt 0.9.2.6-1

Last edited by wesley_of_course (2010-01-13 05:22:35)

jac · 2010-01-13 09:35:15

Does regular pacman work? The first thing that I can think of is that your /etc/pacman.conf file got altered so that it doesn't point to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist like you probably want.

If pacman works, then it is probably a yaourt issue. I don't know much about it's configuration, try looking in there and if you don't find anything paste it here or if it's long put it on something like pastebin.

wesley_of_course · 2010-01-13 17:21:08

Here they are and Thanks for helping on this . On a side note I couldn't find /etc/pacman.conf ; locate did
and I could open it with Gedit but not see it in file browser , ( show hidden files is marked ),
permissions issue maybe? I'll quit rambling and second guessing ;

[wesley@ratdog ~]$ wgetpaste /etc/yaourtrc
Your paste can be seen here: http://dpaste.com/144695/
[wesley@ratdog ~]$ wgetpaste /etc/pacman.conf
Your paste can be seen here: http://dpaste.com/144696/
[wesley@ratdog ~]$ wgetpaste /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Your paste can be seen here: http://dpaste.com/144697/

Yaourt - http://dpaste.com/144695/
Pacman conf. , - http://dpaste.com/144696/
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist - http://dpaste.com/144697/

[wesley@ratdog ~]$ sudo pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing                   16.9K  232.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 core                      35.8K  288.5K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 extra                    438.5K 1026.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 community-testing          4.6K  184.0K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 community                374.1K 1047.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 archlinuxfr               24.1K   56.5K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 archrepo                  25.4K   45.0K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 archstuff                 57.7K   59.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
 arch-games                31.4K  131.7K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%

Yes Pacman works .

jac · 2010-01-14 11:02:34

Well, you're configs look fine to me. At this point, I would try to see if just powerpill would work, and post its config file as well. Hopefully that'll narrow it down further.

Can you see the other configs in the file browser? /etc/pacman.conf isn't hidden, so I'm not sure why you couldn't see it. Maybe it's something with permissions, can you try

ls -l /etc/pacman.conf

and post the output.

wesley_of_course · 2010-01-14 19:11:49

Thank you for helping , here you go ;
http://dpaste.com/145221/

[wesley@ratdog ~]$ sudo powerpill -Syu
Password: 
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing                    9.3K  185.0K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 core is up to date
 extra                    441.3K 1110.2K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 community-testing          2.1K  496.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 community                374.0K  977.9K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 archrepo is up to date
 archstuff is up to date
 arch-games is up to date

:: The following packages will be downloaded:
   [extra]
     claws-mail cairo libchamplain
   [community]
     perl-xyne-arch

:: Number of Packages:               4
:: Total Download Size:        5.27 MB
:: Total Installed Size:      17.52 MB

:: Proceed with download? [Y/n] y
Warning
Most of the modules in perl-xyne-arch have been rewritten for version 1.0. This
has led to changes in several packages which provide frontends to these modules,
most importantly powerpill, pkgd, rebase and reflector.

Please check the help messages and man pages of these packages for option and
configuration changes.

How to check the help messages ?

[wesley@ratdog ~]$ ls -l /etc/pacman.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2911 Dec  7 23:49 /etc/pacman.conf
[wesley@ratdog ~]$

Please excuse the rather long reply !

jac · 2010-01-14 20:59:36

I'm glad to help, you're welcome. That is the problem, at the end of your powerpill.conf you uncommented the additional mirror settings, but didn't actually set the path to anything meaningful. If you recomment those lines it should work and will just have the mirrors from your mirrorlist file.

The help messages that I think that refers to are obtained by "command --help" or in this case "powerpill --help"

You're permissions and ownership seem fine, so I'm not really sure about that problem. But, the other one should be fixed. I would open a new thread if it's really important.

Long replies are not a problem

Last edited by jac (2010-01-14 21:00:13)

wesley_of_course · 2010-01-15 02:42:20

Doh ! Facepalm , man I looked at that , ( config files ) , I don't know how many times !

And it never dawned on me , ' /path/to/mirrorlist ' , good night ! , .

Space between chair and keyboard - again ! Thanks a bunch , that was it and to think

it had been like that , and I had forgot to change it ! , oh well .

Thanks again !

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' error: unable to read /path/to/mirrorlist ' { SOLVED }

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