On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:41:30 +0200 Martti Kühne wrote:
Could you elaborate on the error messages and why you did what you did, then? Seems you left out a significant bit, since I have no comparable error here.
If no-one else hits this then no matter. I might look into improving rankmirrors one day, if it's not already been done by then. For now I might just switch to the newer bytemark mirror. I'm guessing it will be more reliable than UK2s. From memory I removed /etc/mtab... can't recall sorry and the errors seem to be missing from pacman.log. I'm fairly sure it simply said it couldn't remove /etc/mtab. I'm guessing it was this that failed on the original run: upgraded filesystem (2012.2-2 -> 2012.2-4) Once /etc/mtab was removed it complained about read-only /proc. I disabled checkspace as it said out of space error because I had removed /etc/mtab before re-running pacman. Obviously /proc/mounts was still intact.