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I just installed Arch and i cannot upgrade or install any packages cause i when it tries to install anything it gives me :error could not open sync database :extra have you used --refresh yet?
and i cannot update either...it gives me a 550 error.
i know i have the net up and running since i can browse the web with links and all.
any help would be helpful.
squiggy
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what does
'pacman -Syu' yeild?
"Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept." -- Postel's Law
"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
"t̥͍͎̪̪͗a̴̻̩͈͚ͨc̠o̩̙͈ͫͅs͙͎̙͊ ͔͇̫̜t͎̳̀a̜̞̗ͩc̗͍͚o̲̯̿s̖̣̤̙͌ ̖̜̈ț̰̫͓ạ̪͖̳c̲͎͕̰̯̃̈o͉ͅs̪ͪ ̜̻̖̜͕" -- -̖͚̫̙̓-̺̠͇ͤ̃ ̜̪̜ͯZ͔̗̭̞ͪA̝͈̙͖̩L͉̠̺͓G̙̞̦͖O̳̗͍
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when it tried to sync anything i get error: could not cwd to whatever: 550 failed to change directory.
it says it cannot connect to any ftp servers even though i know my net is working cause i can ping with no problems
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adjust your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/<repo> by moving one up on the top of the list.
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I tried that and it still gives me the same errors,gonna try and install packages from the install cd and see what happens...lol
thank you for the suggestion though
squiggy
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ugh.....theres a troll in every board...go back to the bridge you crawled out from under.
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a) Change the order of your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d if you're getting remote errors, then pacman -Syu. Either way it should continue on to the next mirror if there is any sort of error.
ugh.....theres a troll in every board...go back to the bridge you crawled out from under.
b) Check to the left of this text. Read the little snippets under my name.... call me a troll if you like, but you'll come out being the wrong one here.
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well for one those little snippits under your name don't mean anything to me.
second....the question mark comment has nothing to do with the problem i am having.
third....i suddenly found out that i do not have a /etc/pacman.d
squiggy
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No /etc/pacman.d?????????????????????
Looks like your pacman is borked. I'd suggest maybe reinstalling as if pacman failed to install, there's probably other problems as well. You can also get pacman here:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/pacman
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i kinda figured you were gonna say that,so i am gonna try a reinstall and see if that fixes the problem.
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tomk (TU) calling Squiggy (New to Board) - you want phrakture (Developer/Forum Adviser/TU) to be your friend, in much the same way as Google is. There are, of course, many differences, one of which is that Google (machine) is unlikely to give a smart answer, whereas phrakture (human) is. You (also human) need to understand this.
If you've been on enough forums to say "there's a troll in every board", then phrakture's post count alone should make you reconsider. If the rankings under his name "don't mean anything" to you, perhaps you should check them out.
A topic that summarises your problem is also highly recommended.
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adjust your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/<repo> by moving one up on the top of the list.
I tried that and it still gives me the same errors
Change the order of your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d
i suddenly found out that i do not have a /etc/pacman.d
:?:
can someone explain this to me?
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Thank you Phrakture and Penquin,your help has me up and running in Arch Linux.
Tomk.......nice post lol
Squiggy
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tomk (TU) calling Squiggy (New to Board) - you want phrakture (Developer/Forum Adviser/TU) to be your friend, in much the same way as Google is. There are, of course, many differences, one of which is that Google (machine) is unlikely to give a smart answer, whereas phrakture (human) is. You (also human) need to understand this.
human?
Did you mean: hooman
Results for hooman:
...
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Results for hooman:
google:hooman
(well, you asked for them )
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lol @ tomk...
but unfortunetly the problem still persists,no pacman.d still...sigh
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I don't think that's possible twice in a row. Are you doing something funky with your partition layout? How are you installing Arch?
Can you post the output of "pacman -Ql pacman"?
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I installed with the cd
used the auto prepare option
and......
pacman /etc/
pacman /etc/abs/
pacman /etc/abs/abs.conf
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.arch
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.extra
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.unstable
pacman /etc/makepkg.conf
pacman /etc/pacman.conf
pacman /usr/
pacman /usr/bin/
pacman /usr/bin/abs
pacman /usr/bin/convertdb
pacman /usr/bin/gensync
pacman /usr/bin/makepkg
pacman /usr/bin/makeworld
pacman /usr/bin/pacman
pacman /usr/bin/sortmirrors.pl
pacman /usr/bin/vercmp
pacman /usr/man/
pacman /usr/man/man8/
pacman /usr/man/man8/makepkg.8.gz
pacman /usr/man/man8/pacman.8.gz
pacman /var/
pacman /var/abs/
pacman /var/abs/local/
there is the output of pacman -Ql pacman
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Download this, with wget or whatever:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686 … pkg.tar.gz
And then do 'pacman -U' on it as root.
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I'm confused:
pacman /etc/pacman.d/
pacman /etc/pacman.d/community
pacman /etc/pacman.d/current
pacman /etc/pacman.d/extra
pacman /etc/pacman.d/release
pacman /etc/pacman.d/unstable
/me scratches his head
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Huh, missed that. Suddenly his accusation of trolling strikes me as familiar.
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Huh, missed that. Suddenly his accusation of trolling strikes me as familiar.
Errrm, what? I was displaying what files *should* be there....
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I'm highly confused.
squiggy, any possibility of a hard disk failure? If you hadn't said you reinstalled, I would have sugguested checking your filesystem.
Can you run through the sequence of events of exactly what you did again? I'm still not 100% clear on that.
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first i did the auto prepare(partition configuration and i do not get along...lol)
installed my packages(base system)
installed the kernel(2.4 to be exact)
edited a couple files(lilo.conf,rc.conf i believe)
installed lilo
and then rebooted....i might have missed a step but it was pretty straight forward.
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