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orpharion

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Registered: 2012-09-21

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Pacstrap fails on linux-firmware

1. pacstrap /mnt base base-devel fails on linux-firmware-20120625-1-any.pkg.tar.xz, says "transfer closed with 13224 bytes remaining to read".
2. Retrying pacstrap results in "HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume."
3. Removed linux-firmware-20120625-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.part from /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg and tried with 4 other mirrors, all of which failed in the same way.
4. Have tried download linux-firmware from various mirrors and placing in /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg, and installation stalls with error that package is corrupt.
5. Still using the copied package, set Set SigLevel = Never for all entries in /etc/pacman.conf, and installation failed with error that package is corrupt, and package was auto-removed.
6. Tried pacman -Syu, which updated the arch-install-scripts-7-1 and pacman-mirrorlist-20120908-1 (among other things, including linux-3.5.4-1) - interestingly this creates various directories in mnt that pacstrap fails to make (as they exist) when run again. pacstrap still failed with problem 1.

Help greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Should mention I am working within a VM (VirtualBox), if that's relevant.

Last edited by orpharion (2012-09-21 10:37:34)

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: Pacstrap fails on linux-firmware

Try this:

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt            #The root partition.
# nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist   #Choose a mirror.
# rm -rf /mnt/*                   #Start fresh.
# pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

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orpharion

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Registered: 2012-09-21

Posts: 3

Re: Pacstrap fails on linux-firmware

No dice. Made a new virtual hard drive, everything's partitioned, used default mirrors (still haven't found one that doesn't give me this problem), mounted everything up, and same problem. Might this be a proxy problem? It's a shot in the dark, but I'm doing this behind a work proxy (did export http_proxy), and I have connectivity (though I can't ping out).

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Pacstrap fails on linux-firmware

Might this be a proxy problem?

Could be. Some work places restrict various HTTP sites (Facebook, Youtube, etc) in an effort to raise productivity (which by the looks of it, is obviously futile).

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orpharion

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Registered: 2012-09-21

Posts: 3

Re: Pacstrap fails on linux-firmware

I can get through to the mirrors via web browser, so in hindsight it's probably not it. And this company lets us youtube all day long