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jjanderson5

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Registered: 2017-05-21

Posts: 43

[Solved] pacstrap fails

Hi,

I'm giving Arch Linux a try. I downloaded the iso file and copied to a CDROM. I booted the CDROM and mount my root and home disk partitions.
So far, so good.

Then I tried running:

      pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

as instructed.

The program ran, but foreach *.db file, I get the error message:

error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.nimukaito.net: Could not resolve host: arch.nimukaito.net

I'm fairly experienced with Linux installation, but pacstrap is new to me.

I will start researching 'pacstrap' but can someone tell me how to get it working?

I almost forgot, when I ping www.google.com from the boot CDROM, my connection to google is made. But if I ping 'arch.nimukaito.net, ping failes.

Jim A.

Last edited by jjanderson5 (2017-06-02 18:20:13)

Xyne

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Re: [Solved] pacstrap fails

Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to select a different mirror. arch.nimukaito.net seems to have disappeared.

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jjanderson5

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Registered: 2017-05-21

Posts: 43

Re: [Solved] pacstrap fails

That worked - thanks for the help!!

I have another question, but will follow up in a new thread.

Jim A.

antechdesigns

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From: UK

Registered: 2017-05-09

Posts: 20

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Re: [Solved] pacstrap fails

I was getting: error: GPGME error : No data

Editing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and commeting out host: arch.nimukaito.net worked for me

Glad somebody else reported this thought it was just me.

FranekW

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Registered: 2017-05-26

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] pacstrap fails

I also had problem to install Arch Linux with the same error.

Thanks for helping with this

ur6lad

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 34

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Re: [Solved] pacstrap fails

Very similar issue.

When I run pacstrap it has some errors:
systemd-machine-id-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libcryptsetup.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

The same messages for systemd-sysusers, journalctl, systemctl.

I've changed some repos (Canada, Germany, Ukraine) but the same errors are.

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jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: [Solved] pacstrap fails

ur6lad: not a smiliar issue at all: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … _hijacking

Closing

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