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I'm finally starting to finish my Arch installation by setting up little things to help it run, and install a GUI.
However, pacman displays warnings that there's too many errors from the mirror, and then it says there's an error that it failed retrieving the file.
I went and found Arch mirrors in the Wiki, and chose a few US mirrors to see if that would help. It didn't, but now I'm stuck unable to download any packages because it won't get anything from the mirrors.
Example (first displayed mirror failure upon installing KDE Plasma)
error: failed retrieving file 'libjpec-turbo-2.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirrors.cat.pdx.edu : Could not resolve host : mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
warning: too many errors from mirrors.cat.pdx.edu, skipping for the remainder of the transaction
The commands I used (both displayed the same errors):
pacman -S plasma-meta kde-applications
sudo pacman -S plasma-meta kde-applications
"Little things" I tried setting up were as the following:
- AMD CPU Microde files
- xorg-server (for the GUI) (yes, I tried installing that before the GUI, still had the same error as shown)
- AMD Graphic support (mesa)
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How did you set up your network?
Last edited by Scimmia (2021-07-24 03:24:01)
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Wireless. If I need a wired connection, I can pop my NVMe into my laptop that has an Ethernet port. I didn't think about that til you asked about my network.
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Wireless is fine, you just have to set it up. What did you do to configure networking on the system?
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iwctl during the initial set up (while install medium was connected)
Installed: networkmanager wpa_supplicant wireless_tools netctl
I got dialog installed and enabled the Network Manager
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Installed: networkmanager wpa_supplicant wireless_tools netctl
I got dialog installed and enabled the Network Manager
Sounds like you're usin NM and netctl (wifi-menu) concurrently?
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I got a bit lost on the ArchWiki installation, so I went on YouTube and found this tutorial. I followed the non-encryption method (I posted the link to the video and the link with all the commands).
If I'm running both of those concurrently (which I believe I am then), it's just because I followed the guide I found.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPLnBPM4DhI
Commands: https://wiki.learnlinux.tv/index.php/Ar … tion_Guide
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Which is why stupid youtube tutorials are not supported.
find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f
ps faux
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seth was faster
Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2021-07-24 14:05:16)
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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Honestly, I should've figured to just stick with the Wiki, but I didn't and went with an alternative.
I used the command that seth posted, and it returned:
sort: cannot read: pc: No such file or directory
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Typo?
find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print # the reast is just fancyness
ps faux
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WIthout the fanciness, it prints out:
find: paths must precede expression: 'ps'
With the fanciness (just to redo it and make sure I didn't make a typo), it still prints out:
sort: cannot read: ps: No such file or directory
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Those are *two* commands.
Use the fancy one then.
Then the other one *afterwards*.
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It's the same result, just the other way.
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Wut?
find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print
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Printed out:
/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.target
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager.service
/etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants/NetworkManager-wait-online.service
/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service
/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/dirmngr.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent-browser.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/p11-kit-server.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent-ssh.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent-extra.socket
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ps faux
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Lotta stuff that I'm not sure how to put in here, I'm sorry.
Is there something I should be looking for in specific?
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ps faux | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
Post the url.
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curl: (6) Could not resolve host: ix.io
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Because you've no internet… can you usb walk output to a system w/ internet access?
sudo journalctl -b > /tmp/journal.txt
ps faux > /tmp/processlist.txt
Edit:
I can pop my NVMe into my laptop that has an Ethernet port.
???
Last edited by seth (2021-07-24 16:00:43)
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Let's back up here a second. You started NetworkManager, did you actually make the connection with it?
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Reply to Seth: the laptop I'm setting Arch up on is doesn't have a Ethernet port, just a thunderbolt, 2 usbs and an hdmi. I have a second laptop I don't use as often anymore that has a Ethernet port.
Reply to Scrimmia: I started it, I don't think I ever made a connection with it.
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I don't think I ever made a connection with it.
And you expect to have one because… Magic? Voodoo?
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I wasn't sure if when I saved one with iwctl, it would stay with the system. So I didn't expect magic to save me, this is my first time working with Arch, I've only ever used Mint so doing all this is fairly new cause everything is already set up besides a wifi network for Mint.
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