[arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
> I did a fresh install of 2009.08 on a new box and I am getting a weird pacman
> error where pacman doesn't recognize the first "Server" statement in
> mirrorlist. (2009.08 installed perfectly) All 3 of my other arch boxes work
> fine with the mirrorlist file and do not give the error. I have even copied
> the mirrorlist from one of my other boxes to the new box and the error still
> occurs. Even though I get the error, pacman works just fine. The error is:
>
> error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not
> recognized
>
> Line 193 is just the first sever in mirrorlist:
>
> 192 # United States
> 193 Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
> 194 Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686
>
> Any ideas?
>
> The pacman.log.bz2 and messages.log.bz2 for the install are here:
>
> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/dcrgx2/

I have a feeling you uncommented something (testing?) in
/etc/pacman.conf, but didn't uncomment the header for the repo:

#[testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

This is wrong. The [testing] needs to be uncommented too