Can't update or install software
09-24-2021, 04:09 AM
(09-23-2021, 11:50 PM)kqlnut Wrote: The mirror where pacman gets its data from seems to be unavailable. Check out this article on mirrors and try another one.
Thanks! I read the article but it's a little over my head, still new to this stuff. I tried to ping mirror.archlinuxarm.org and it seems to be working:
sudo ping mirror.archlinuxarm.org
...
64 bytes from archlinuxarm.org (50.116.36.11
0):icmp_seq=220 ttl=49 time=86.4 ms
...
The first error I observed was on the initial boot script when it was "Generating pacman keyring master key" and failed, and it wasn't connected to the internet at the time since WiFi wasn't logged in yet, so the mirror wasn't part of the mix. I thought maybe it needs an internet connection on initial boot (although that wasn't in the instructions) so I reinstalled Arch, plugged the dock into it, and hardwired it to my router for the initial boot sequence, but it didn't change anything. And I saw the same error message come up when I was installing the July build too. The fact that nobody else seems to have this problem makes me wonder if it's something about what I'm doing on my end. I'm using ZorinOS 15, Jumpdrive (Pine64-Pinephone.img.xz), and the stock "Repair Disk Image" utility (which I used to install Manjaro/Plasma with no problems). I wonder if using Windows 10 with BalenaEtcher would have different results.
If it doesn't have a "pacman keyring master key," that would interfere with the operation of pacman, wouldn't it? Is there a command line to redo "Generating pacman keyring master key"?