Noob install running into problems everywhere.

yousef · 2008-01-10 20:35:39

just installed arch, made new user. rebooted

logged into root, pacman -S xorg, got invalid locale error and xorg not found in sync db

I cannot open /etc/locale.gen (permission denied) for some reason, actually even rc.conf and pacman.conf I get permission denied. maybe I don't know how to properly open these things. at the [root@..]# i just type /etc/locale.gen

I'm not sure if I have to configure my internet, I have a cable modem connected with ethernet card.

Can someone help plz me?, maybe give me the most basic steps from getting from where I am to pacman -S xorg working and to a GUI.

maybe i have to configure pacman too??

dmartins · 2008-01-10 20:47:49

I think the first thing is to check out your /etc/locale.gen file. The way you're trying to open it is trying to execute the file. The permission denied error is because the file doesn't have the execute bit set! You need to load the file in a text editor so try nano /etc/locale.gen
If you edit the file then you'll need to run locale-gen at the root prompt.

Now that I think about it, the problem is most likely in /etc/rc.conf where your locale is actually set. Open that file using nano and make sure LOCALE is set properly. In my case, for Canadian english using UTF8, i have LOCALE="en_CA.utf8"

Last edited by dmartins (2008-01-10 20:51:48)

Mikko777 · 2008-01-10 20:55:36

yousef wrote:

Can someone help plz me?, maybe give me the most basic steps from getting from where I am to pacman -S xorg working and to a GUI.

Yes that is what Beginner's Guide in wiki was created for.

Other than that you should use the latest install cd from the Announcement forum, since the latest official cd is frankly quite old by now.

lilsirecho · 2008-01-10 21:03:00

Perhaps the pacman program is not up tp date.

To test its setup, use......pacman -S pacman....

In addition, look at

/etc/pacman.conf

This must have....

[core]

and not;

[current]

And in the server list for [CORE], change it to /core as well.

You may have already done these things?

The internet is set up in...

/etc/rc.conf

You can use nano edit program,....

#cd /etc
nano rc.conf

Good luck!

yousef · 2008-01-10 21:31:37

ok thx alot, i got some things moving now. When i do pacman -S pacman it fails to connect to any of the sites and i get some kind of "resolver" error so i'm guessing probably my internet is not configured properly which I don't know how to do even with the guides. I live in Canada and have videotron highspeed cable internet with a motorola modem connected not via usb but via ethernet (i guess). How exactly do I configure this, its not DSL, is it ISDN?

Bestiapeluda · 2008-01-10 21:49:57

Your Cablemodem is probably connected like mine. I have the same one here in Argentina.
Your Cablemodem assigns all configurations automatically via DHCP. Make sure you did configure
/etc/rc.conf accordingly.

eth0="dhcp"

yousef · 2008-01-10 21:57:15

that's all the config i have to do? if so, i'm pretty sure it was configured like that. Then I have no idea why pacman is not working

dmartins · 2008-01-10 21:58:44

It's basically just an ethernet connection which more than likely gets an addressing using DHCP.

Run ifconfig -a and make sure you have a listing for 'eth0'. eth0 should be your ethernet connection. If eth0 isn't listed then you probably don't have the kernel module (driver) loaded for your network card. If that's the case, we'll need to know what type network card you have (more specifically the chip it uses), the relevant line from the lspci command usually gives some clues.

If eth0 is listed but you still cant connect, edit /etc/rc.conf again.
You'll need the following:

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
ROUTES=(!gateway)

It doesn't matter what gateway is set to, you should get this information automatically using DHCP.
Make changes if necessary and reboot.

darkarchon · 2008-01-10 22:02:18

well, for starters you can run ifconfig to see if your ethernet card was properly detected and whether you got IP address by DHCP.

yousef · 2008-01-10 22:18:54

ya it seems like everything there is ok, i got listings under eth0 and ip address and everything. But pacman -S xorg still gives me "xorg not found in sync db"

fwojciec · 2008-01-10 22:25:33

did you synchronize pacman database at all? (pacman -Sy)

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yousef · 2008-01-10 22:26:44

....no

yousef · 2008-01-10 22:39:29

lol, i tried it: long list of failed attempts and at the end:

error: failed to synchronize community: transient resolver failure
error: failed to synchronize databases

fwojciec · 2008-01-10 22:48:29

All I can say is: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

Honestly -- all the answers you're looking for are there and phrased more clearly and in more detail than what you could get on the forums. At the moment your network doesn't seem to be working so get that sorted out first. I would, in fact, recommend just following the guide from the beginning to the end, because if you skip some steps some things are not going to work as they should.

jacko · 2008-01-10 22:59:51

post your pacman.conf here. its located in /etc/pacman.conf

in particular, read this part of the beginners guide. Just click the link and read everything in that sub-category. then try pinging google
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … The_System

 ping -c 3 www.google.com

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lilsirecho · 2008-01-10 23:25:55

Perhaps you should now go back to my first post and do the steps therein to resolve the pacman problem.

Pacman must have the correct ...pacman.conf ...entries in [core] as was posted.

yousef · 2008-01-10 23:26:25

YES!, thank you all i managed to get it to work. I dled and installed xorg, but it wont run (vga failed) i think i have to add my username to sound and video

Misfit138 · 2008-01-10 23:56:35

Unfortunately, the reason you are running into problems everywhere, is because you failed to properly follow the installation procedure.
And, you will probably continue to run into a lot of obstacles and frustration by ignoring the correct process.
Please read and follow the Beginner's Guide as was suggested.

jacko · 2008-01-11 13:10:51

yousef wrote:

YES!, thank you all i managed to get it to work. I dled and installed xorg, but it wont run (vga failed) i think i have to add my username to sound and video

it helps when u point out exactly what the problem is. But, since u can't/won't do that I will take a guess and say u haven't done a

X --configure

to generate a xorg.conf file that xorg can use to start with, that's why, could be wrong though!

now READ the beginners guide, this is all covered in that one manual on the wiki.

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-11 13:12:15)

gnufreex · 2009-11-16 15:55:13

Hi all, I have same problem like OP. Did a successful install of Arch and booted into it. Network and Internet work fine, I checked with "ping www.google.com". But whan I do "pacman -S something" (with 'something' being xorg, kde or gnome) i get "something not found in sync db".

I could not get anywhere following instructions on Wiki (did everything and still same). I am now posting from Ubuntu (on another partition) and trying to edit Arch .conf files from there. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: I instaled Core image, latest one, I think it's 2009.8. It is x86-64.

Last edited by gnufreex (2009-11-16 15:58:31)

Mr.Elendig · 2009-11-16 16:01:24

gnufreex wrote:

Hi all, I have same problem like OP. Did a successful install of Arch and booted into it. Network and Internet work fine, I checked with "ping www.google.com". But whan I do "pacman -S something" (with 'something' being xorg, kde or gnome) i get "something not found in sync db".
I could not get anywhere following instructions on Wiki (did everything and still same). I am now posting from Ubuntu (on another partition) and trying to edit Arch .conf files from there. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I instaled Core image, latest one, I think it's 2009.8. It is x86-64.

Please don't necropost.

Also, just make sure your mirrorlist is sane and do a -Sy

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-11-16 16:08:31)

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