On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:41:12 +0200 "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" <andre.osku.schmidt@googlemail.com> wrote:

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just gives me the usage info, without any errors... and also the "Invalid URL scheme" errors that i see in tty7 are nowhere to find in /var/log/*

what i would do in a case like this is just monitor the output of 'pstree' to see which processes is running (ie wget, pacman, ..), then you can debug the networking issue from there.

oooh! you learn new things every day :) super tip. thanks! i got something, maybe

pstree shows (when it hangs in url scheme error) aif /sbin/aif -p automatic -c /root/pacinst.aif -d -l |--pacman --root /mnt --config /tmp/pacman.conf -Sy

and as according to some forum post (and it seems to work only with this) i had to uncomment: XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget ... in /etc/pacman.conf to get pacman to work on the installer image console. and now looking at the /tmp/pacman.conf, this option is missing.

but as i assumed (and test showed) the /tmp/pacman.conf gets newly generated on every aif run. so i cant edit that.

what file could i edit to get that xfercommand in /tmp/pacman.conf

(this looks even closer, OMG! /me is crossing fingers... :)

another tip: just grep in the aif source code and you'll see. if you grep for '/tmp/pacman.conf' you'll see there is a function target_write_pacman_conf in lib-pacman.sh, like any other function you can override this with your own. Dieter