Pacman does not work on Post Install

supercharles · 2010-09-06 13:11:28

Hi,

After having installed my system, set up what I thought was the right conf for pacman (according to what the Install guide says) I tried to run pacman -Syu and -Syy, but everytime (I specified or didn't specify server names) it gives me this message:

 downloading core.db.tar.gz
downloading extra.db.tar.gz
downloading community.db.tar.gz
:: Starting full system update
The local database is up to date.

I have also run pacman -Syy --debug as I started to have doubts on whether I was connected to the network (am using wireless) but the message clearly indicated it was connecting to the mirrors.

Any idea?

karol · 2010-09-06 13:15:32

Check your mirrorlist. Pick one mirror from https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus and give it a go.
If you have pacman 3.4 for installed, you can set the mirrors like this

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Server = http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Do it for [core] and [community] too and try '-Syy' again.

Maybe you have your system fully up-to-date. You can check http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ the current versions of the packages and compare with what you have.

Last edited by karol (2010-09-06 13:19:51)

wonder · 2010-09-06 13:25:09

@karol kinda useless because in this way only extra would be up to date.

change your mirror from /etc/pacman.d/mirrrorlist and pacman -Syyu

note that first in the list has precedence

supercharles · 2010-09-06 13:28:34

Hmm, I already did try all this. Out of ideas, I rebooted. I now get a 'transient resolver failure" message when running pacman...

karol · 2010-09-06 13:35:26

wonder wrote:

@karol kinda useless because in this way only extra would be up to date.

Re-read my post.

@ supercharles
If you have tried many mirrors and you still get 'transient resolver failure', do a forum search for that error.

wonder · 2010-09-06 13:38:32

karol wrote:

wonder wrote:
@karol kinda useless because in this way only extra would be up to date.
Re-read my post.

still sucks, because you made 3 changes vs 1 change

karol · 2010-09-06 13:44:54

wonder wrote:

karol wrote:
wonder wrote:
@karol kinda useless because in this way only extra would be up to date.
Re-read my post.
still sucks, because you made 3 changes vs 1 change

Yeah, but now it's enough to post pacman.conf if you're having problems, no need for the mirrorlist ;P

supercharles · 2010-09-07 13:38:26

Okay; in fact it's a network problem : I use the infamous rt2860 wireless card...

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Pacman does not work on Post Install

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