Hi guys and thanks for your time. @ Rafael: already did that but I narrowed the error, see below. @ Øyvind: done: http://pastebin.org/430438 . As you see, everything seems allright :p @ Allan: /var/lib/pacman/local seems allrigth too, here is it's content: http://pastebin.org/430449 . One thing I just noticed -alas, my mind's on the cloud, literally- is pacman isn't actually downloading/updating repos, look out this output: http://pastebin.org/430461 Damn, I'm pretty sure that mean something, at least pacman isn't working at it should be. I'm researching on this but still no clue on what happening here... Martín 2010/7/29, Allan McRae :

On 30/07/10 04:53, Martín Cigorraga wrote:

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But the weirdest thing is afeter issue those orders I did a $ packer -Syu to update AUR packages and guess what? I remember I had something like 140 packages installed from AUR but this time packer wanted to check for 1272 packages lol

Hmmm... do you have anything in /var/lib/pacman/local? It sounds like you have lost your package database somehow.

Allan

Sorry about those two emails, I posted from Konqueror and seems it can't handle this... Nevermind, this is my actual /eetc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file after downloading newest version and rankmirroring it: http://pastebin.org/430494 Thanks.

Ok: thanks to the *excellent* Arch Wiki I had the idea too boot from the Arch CD and take a look at /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. To my surprise, or not, once I copy it to my Arch install it worked allright. I remember some days ago there was a discussion about how useful could be using "Architecture = auto" instead "686" or "x86_64" in /etc/pacman.conf. Since /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist uses two variables passed by pacman which first read in it's config file, may be a bug relating that's preventing pacman from accesing repositories? Also, weird enough, why in the world [catalyst] Server = http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst/x86_64 don't work!? Repo is online and perfectly accesible via web. Also it don't use any variable in the url so what's going on here? Getting more and more confused... Martin

SOLVED I'am an Arch and GNU/Linux n00b but I'm also a 'hardheaded/stubborn' guy when it's about solving a problem - even worst if it's related to my computer, lol. After looking and trying several things I narrowed the problem to 'rankmirrors'. I don't know why (was the package updated early?) because allways runned smooth here, but the file generated is somewhat corrupt. Seems it's time to fill a bug report :) BTW, Arch rules!! Thanks every single one for making this possible, I enjoy so much using it and I evangelize everybody about it, you all kick-ass people. Martín

Hi there Ionuț! according to ATI Catalyst wiki ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst): "There is a repository called *[catalyst]* which contains *newest stable catalyst driver* and some additional packages like *patched xorg-server*. This repository should now work with any kernel and with multiple-kernels systems (read Stock and Custom Kernelshttp://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst#Stock_and_Custom_Kernelssection) and it is updated most frequently. To use it you need as root: *1)* Edit /etc/pacman.conf and add those lines above all other repositories" That's why I put it there :p Thank you very much!

So you're aware, cool, one less bug report to fill =D