[arch-general] Not Enough Bandwidth

2018-11-08 Thread pete via arch-general
Hello folks . one of my rare visits to the mailing list I am having a small problem with my machine I recently Purchased an USB3 PCEe card with 2 usb3 ports on it 03:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04) when i first installed this card it worked j

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 11/8/18 1:05 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> It won't be old and now missing, because you used -Sy and it will >> refresh *again*. > > But isn't it multiple stages with a race condition? > > 1 Update /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db > 2 Update /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db > 3 Updat

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > Dangerous is when you break your system by installing incompatible > packages via a "successful" partial update. Ah, right. I `pacman -S foo'. foo depends on libbar. libbar 1.0 is already installed because xyzzy needs it. The earlier `pacman -Syuw' updated the local database to know

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 11/8/18 12:25 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Eli, > >>> Not in my case as I've previously done a `pacman -Syuw' during `free >>> bandwidth' hours, thanks to cron. Later on, when I'm at the >>> keyboard and it's a convenient time for breakage, I upgrade to >>> what's already been downloaded man

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > > Not in my case as I've previously done a `pacman -Syuw' during `free > > bandwidth' hours, thanks to cron. Later on, when I'm at the > > keyboard and it's a convenient time for breakage, I upgrade to > > what's already been downloaded manually and definitely don't want > > `-y'. :-)