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Narrator

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Registered: 2008-09-30

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Upgrade and internet issues

I recently installed Arch 64 and have been having a couple of issues:

1.When I installed it I connected to the internet and tried "pacman -Syu" to upgrade my system. The download went fine( although a little slow) but when it came to the installation it spit out some junk about files already being in the filesystem and at the end something about errors occurring and no packages being upgraded. I can't even install my video drivers because it needs some files to be upgraded.

2.At first I had internet just fine but now it wouldn't connect. I have a PPPoE (username+password) connection. Also, when booting it says "eth0 timed out". I had another computer before this one. I had  installed Arch 32 and had everything setup properly. But this time I need a 64 bit edition due to rendering purposes.

Any help is welcome. Thanks.

By the way, I have kind of mixed up shifts so I may not be able to answer you right away.

Xyne

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Re: Upgrade and internet issues

What specific errors did you get?
"it spit out some junk about files already being in the file system..." isn't very informative.

It might be this issue: http://www.archlinux.org/news/411/
but don't just follow the advice in that post without really checking that that's the error you're getting.

You can speed up package downloads by using powerpill (it's linked in my sig).

No idea about the internet connection. Try some basic stuff like pinging the site by name and then by IP if that fails and report back with more info.

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Narrator

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Re: Upgrade and internet issues

Thanks. The link worked. I managed to install my video drivers as a test but I somehow broke the system. I'm with a fresh installation but eth0 still times out when booting. I shutdown the Wake-On-LAN (I read it somewhere) but it still doesn't help. Since I can't connect to the internet I can't ping anything. Sorry.

This is my MB: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L - RTL8168C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

EDIT: I booted LinuxMint (32 bit edition) and the internet worked just fine. It's weird because they both use the rp-pppoe plug-in. Is it 64 bit related? Is it my MB related? Any assistance would be great.

Last edited by Narrator (2009-02-14 23:28:54)

Narrator

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Registered: 2008-09-30

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Re: Upgrade and internet issues

OK! The new release (2009.02) seemed to fix everything. Thanks for the powerpill tip. It works great although at the end it slows down. But it beats the alternative.

Now I only need some help configuring my xorg file.

Thanks again.