[Solved] Trouble Installing a Desktop Environment

BrendenD15 · 2013-06-04 19:11:19

I am currently running an Arch install on a VirtualBox machine inside of Windows 8 and I have gotten to the point of installing a Desktop Environment. I had GNOME 3 running, but I moved the virtual machine's drive to my main HDD from my external one for a bit of a speed boost. In the process, my GNOME 3 install disappeared and I had to re install syslinux.
After I reconfigured syslinux and the user profile settings(which also disappeared), I tried to reinstall GNOME. Pacman downloaded all of the packages, but three were corrupted(or had an invalid signature) and so didn't install GNOME. I tried several more times, gave up, and then tried KDE. Same, exact problem as before, even the same packages with one of them now working. The packages are: libxcb-1.9-3 and nettle-2.7-1.

Not sure if it means anything, but most of the download mirrors pacman tried returned a "404 page not found" error.

Thanks ahead of time for any help. It's really frustrating to need only 2MB of packages that won't download.

Last edited by BrendenD15 (2013-06-05 04:20:56)

Scimmia · 2013-06-04 19:13:19

Your system is out of date. Run pacman -Syu first.

Edit, make sure to read the front page news, though.

Last edited by Scimmia (2013-06-04 19:13:54)

karol · 2013-06-04 19:14:09

Use an up to date mirrorlist and always update the whole system before installing new software.

ewaller · 2013-06-04 19:17:59

Wow. First, welcome to Arch.

Okay, I cannot parse that first paragraph. You moved a file containing a virtual disk from one volume to another, causing Gnome to be uninstalled, so you had to reinstall syslinux? Um, I am dumbfounded.

Okay, part 2. What are the error messages? It also appears that you are attempting an evil, unsupported partial upgrade. What is the specific command you issued?
I strongly suggest you try a pacman -Syu before you do anything more.

edit: That is what Scimmia,( who is very fast ) said up there ^^^

Last edited by ewaller (2013-06-04 19:19:40)

BrendenD15 · 2013-06-04 22:07:39

Thanks for the fast responses. I think Scimmia's might have broken a record.

I'm working on the system update now. My ISP bottle-necked my internet so it'll take me a little while to try again before I post the results. As for the error messages you were talking about, ewaller; the first ones were all "404 page not found" like I stated earlier. However, the others all said something to the effect of:

"error: signature of <author's name> is invalid
package (package name) is invalid or corrupted
Do you want to delete package?[Y/n]"

and at the end:

error: packages corrupted
no packages installed or upgraded

And I also don't have the slightest idea why syslinux and GNOME got messed up. But, I did get everything else moved over okay.

Scimmia · 2013-06-04 23:39:34

BrendenD15, apparently there are some issues with Daniel Wallace's keys right now. I'm guessing that's the ones you're having trouble with?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164455

BrendenD15 · 2013-06-05 04:19:07

I believe they were some of his. Good news though, I did the full system update and Arch worked like magic again. I got KDE installed and am working on setting up the VirtualBox guest additions so that I can readjust the resolution, effects, etc... All in all everything is working great now! Thanks everyone

Edit: I know that technically this thread could be included in the Desktop Environments and Window Managers section, but I figured that since most of the topics there assume that your DE is already set up but not acting right, that I would post it here. Since my DE wasn't even completely downloaded, I decided it might fit here better.

Last edited by BrendenD15 (2013-06-05 04:33:12)

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