Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-23 Thread Francis Gerund
Thanks, guys. I appreciate the support! : ) On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Aaron Caffrey wrote: > On 21/04/15 at 09:10am, Francis Gerund wrote: > >> >> But reading is not always the most efficient or even the most effective >> learning modality. Often, just asking questions is the best wa

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-22 Thread Aaron Caffrey
On 21/04/15 at 09:10am, Francis Gerund wrote: But reading is not always the most efficient or even the most effective learning modality. Often, just asking questions is the best way to promote knowledge transfer. Hello Francis, I have never inteded to discourage you or hurt your feelings. I

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-22 Thread john
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 09:10:00AM -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > Okay . . . > > Thank you for the input. > > May I just state that I can (and do) use all of the information resources > aforementioned. Oh, if you only knew the may hours I have spent reading, > reading, reading. Yes, I have lear

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-21 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Francis Gerund wrote: > Eli, I did not mean to imply that the way you showed is wrong. > > I am totally new to Arch and pacman, so I really don't know how this all > works. > > > I am just trying to learn. > Don't worry about it. I was just clarifying that the u

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-21 Thread Francis Gerund
Okay . . . Thank you for the input. May I just state that I can (and do) use all of the information resources aforementioned. Oh, if you only knew the may hours I have spent reading, reading, reading. Yes, I have learned much from reading. But reading is not always the most efficient or even t

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-20 Thread Aaron Caffrey
Hello Francis, In archlinux you have to rely on the wiki, man pages and info documents more often than you do in the mail list, as a lot the wiki pages there are written by people that have dedicated a lot of their free time to write the provided information correctly and well explained, also the

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-20 Thread Aaron Caffrey
On 17/04/15 at 08:45pm, Francis Gerund wrote: The error mysteriously went away. Hello Francis, It is awesome to hear that your issue is solved. As Sebastian Vettel noted, your mirrors was 'out-of-sync' that is why I suggested you a simple solution derived from the wiki. Best regards, Aaron

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-20 Thread Francis Gerund
Eli, I did not mean to imply that the way you showed is wrong. I am totally new to Arch and pacman, so I really don't know how this all works. I am just trying to learn. On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > > > Just

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-19 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > Just using reflector only, as per the wiki mirror page, wouldn't this be > simpler: > > sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort > rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > > It *seems* to work okay from here, a

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-19 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > This is a known issue regarding the way Arch syncs mirrors. There's even a > bug > report for a particular mirror > < > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44374?project=1&cat%5B0%5D=31&string=pacman-mirrorlist > > That bug report would lead to peo

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-19 Thread Francis Gerund
Just using reflector only, as per the wiki mirror page, wouldn't this be simpler: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist It *seems* to work okay from here, and does not explicitly require use of rankmirrors or a mirrorgen file

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-19 Thread Mark Lee
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 01:58:52 PM Eli Schwartz wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > > I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch > > wiki "mirrors" page: > > > > Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: > > > > # cp /etc/pacman

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-19 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch > wiki "mirrors" page: > > Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: > > # cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > > Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirr

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-17 Thread Francis Gerund
I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch wiki "mirrors" page: Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: # cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup and uncomment mirrors for testing with rankmirrors. Opt

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-17 Thread Aaron Caffrey
On 16/04/15 at 05:26pm, Francis Gerund wrote: Just recently did: sudo pacmatic -Syuv and got: :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.localmsp.org : Connection timed out after 1 milliseconds core is up to date error: failed retrieving file 'e

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-16 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
The mirror you picked is out-of-sync with the main mirrors. Either pick a different mirror or wait until it is in sync.

[arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-16 Thread Francis Gerund
Just recently did: sudo pacmatic -Syuv and got: :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.localmsp.org : Connection timed out after 1 milliseconds core is up to date error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from arch.localmsp.org : Connection ti

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Saturday 07 January 2012 15:48:16 Peter Lewis wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Welcome to Arch. > > On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 15:33:41 Peter Nikolic wrote: > > I have just found one more that i cant find a way round , Just went to > > correct the timezone from Europe/Gurnsey to the correct Europe/Londo

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Pete, Welcome to Arch. On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 15:33:41 Peter Nikolic wrote: > I have just found one more that i cant find a way round , Just went to > correct the timezone from Europe/Gurnsey to the correct Europe/London > but it will not let me sac=ve the changes and does not ask for ro

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Saturday 07 January 2012 14:51:31 Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Jan 7, 2012 10:44 PM, "Peter Nikolic" wrote: > > Hi > > > > i have just run pacman -Syu reasonable list of updates downloaded ok > > integrity check ok but then > > > > error : (conflicting files) > > > > filesystem: /etc/mtab exis

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Jan 7, 2012 10:44 PM, "Peter Nikolic" wrote: > > Hi > > i have just run pacman -Syu reasonable list of updates downloaded ok > integrity check ok but then > error : (conflicting files) > filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem > initscripts: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Jesse Juhani Jaara
> filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required/ > initscripts: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem http://www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-manual-intervention-required/

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
Read the news at archlinux.org On 7 Jan 2012 15:44, "Peter Nikolic" wrote: > Hi > > i have just run pacman -Syu reasonable list of updates downloaded ok > integrity check ok but then > error : (conflicting files) > filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem > initscripts: /etc/profile.d/loca

[arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Nikolic
Hi i have just run pacman -Syu reasonable list of updates downloaded ok integrity check ok but then error : (conflicting files) filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem initscripts: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem Cheers Pete .

Re: [arch-general] Update Error :: system-tools-backends: requires perl>=5.12.1

2010-07-06 Thread David C. Rankin
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Re: [arch-general] Update Error :: system-tools-backends: requires perl>=5.12.1

2010-07-05 Thread Allan McRae
On 06/07/10 15:19, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, My attempt at upgrade failed this evening due to the following perl dependency: 23:50 archangel:~> pmsu :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 35.5K 108.0K/s 00:00:00 [] 100% extra 45

[arch-general] Update Error :: system-tools-backends: requires perl>=5.12.1

2010-07-05 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, My attempt at upgrade failed this evening due to the following perl dependency: 23:50 archangel:~> pmsu :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 35.5K 108.0K/s 00:00:00 [] 100% extra

Re: [arch-general] Update Error - :: sysprof-module: requires kernel26<2.6.33 (is this a wait on the mirrors thing?)

2010-04-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/11/2010 05:20 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> Guys, >>How to fix? >> > > IIRC you can use a newer sysprof version that does not require a sysprof > module. > Sysprof 1.1.4 (This version requires a 2.6.31 kernel or later

Re: [arch-general] Update Error - :: sysprof-module: requires kernel26<2.6.33 (is this a wait on the mirrors thing?)

2010-04-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        Trying to update and I received: > > 05:15 nirvana:~/img/pics/portraits/dcr> pms -u > :: Synchronizing package databases... >  core is up to date >  extra is up to date >  community is up to date >  archlinuxfr is up to da

[arch-general] Update Error - :: sysprof-module: requires kernel26<2.6.33 (is this a wait on the mirrors thing?)

2010-04-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Trying to update and I received: 05:15 nirvana:~/img/pics/portraits/dcr> pms -u :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date kdemod-legacy is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolvin