On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Will Siddall wrote:

Marco, I'm not expecting anyone to be clairvoyant, that's why I'm asking for help :P

- the disk has got 7G left on it - the internet is working fine.  Like I mentioned, I'm able to download the update lists, but from that point it won't do anything else.

Which mirror are you using, and how often does it synchronize? Don't you just need to be more patient?

I had this happen to me with the kernel upgrade, and its just the case of the repository mirror not being instantly updated. Thats how I learned to stop worrying and trust the pacman (and yaourt to some degree). justin On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote:

Excerpts from Will Siddall's message of Thu Jun 25 09:33:40 -0400 2009:

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I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing.

So... for the record, there is _no_ output from pacman? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)

[...] or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name. (Don't laugh! Look at the SMC etherpower for that.) -- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS

Alright, after looking up the mirror's list (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one of the more recently updated mirrors and ran the update. This worked. I can download and upgrade my system. When I set my mirrors list back, and re-synchronize, everything is back to normal. I don't know what happened, or why it caused this, but it's back together again. Thanks for the help. Will On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Will Siddall wrote:

Thanks everyone for the responses.  I can't be sure that it's the repository since I've been putting off upgrading my Amarok lately, so that's constantly in the list... and even that's gone now.

And there is output from pacman, just 'No upgrades found'

I just re-ran rankmirrors and tried again... no difference

Will

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, justin caratzas wrote:

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I had this happen to me with the kernel upgrade, and its just the case of the repository mirror not being instantly updated.  Thats how I learned to stop worrying and trust the pacman (and yaourt to some degree).

justin

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote:

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Excerpts from Will Siddall's message of Thu Jun 25 09:33:40 -0400 2009:

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I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing.

So... for the record, there is _no_ output from pacman? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)

[...] or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name. (Don't laugh!  Look at the SMC etherpower for that.)        -- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS

Thanks Thomas, I'll be sure to try that next time :P. Sorry to waste your time with this. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Will Siddall schrieb:

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Alright, after looking up the mirror's list (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one of the more recently updated mirrors and ran the update.  This worked.  I can download and upgrade my system.

When I set my mirrors list back, and re-synchronize, everything is back to normal.

Maybe you should have tried pacman -Syy, that often helps.