(08-27-2019, 04:27 PM)conlaoch Wrote: Anyone else have trouble updating their Arch distro?  Twice now after an update its done something to the resolve.conf and then paceman can no longer resolve hostnames.  This makes Pacman die most spectacularly.  The last time I reverted to an unchanged resolve.conf and that worked.  But this time I have been unable to get it to work.  The annoying thing is drill seems to work just fine.  Drill <hostname> seems to find the info without any issues, but paceman and the web are broken.

Much as I love Arch, this kind of strange behavior is enough to make me go look for another distro that works as expected.

And yes, I understand that Arch is not a distro for newbies, but i've been running it off and on for the past 6=8 years and this is the first time i've had this trouble.

(08-28-2019, 07:40 AM)wolfen1125 Wrote: Although I am on a different machine I use ArchLinux ARM myself and experienced this problem sometime back.  After weeding through a ton of posts I found a reddit entry that worked for me.  Check your /etc/systemd/resolvd.conf, and set DNSSEC=no then restart systemd-resolvd.  YMMV but it worked for me, am attaching link to post below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/bihmse/pacman_could_not_resolve_hostname_issue/