Pacman downloading slowly and signature errors [Solved]

Question

So, I'm trying to do a clean install of Arch Linux. I've chrooted into the system and tried to download wireless_tools, netcfg, and dialog to set up my wireless connection but ran into two issues. First, sometimes I would get a message that says something like:
error: failed retrieving file 'wireless_tools-29-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.us.leaseweb.net : Operation too slow. Less than 1024 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
From what I gathered then it should try the next mirror in my mirrorlist until it finds one with a decent speed. However, then it checks the package integrity and I get more error messages. For each package there's a message like:
error: wireless_tools: signature from "Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]>" is invalid
and then:
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))
Any ideas on what's causing this/how to fix it?
Last edited by TKing (2012-10-02 21:45:47)

Answer 1

Did you set the hostname in both files:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Hostname
/etc/hostname
Needs to just contain one line, the hostname.
/etc/hosts
You need to edit two of the lines to the exact same text string you put in /etc/hostname
My /etc/hostname:
Jeremiah
My /etc/hosts:
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 Jeremiah localhost
::1 Jeremiah localhost
# End of file
If those three different text entries do not exactly match then you will have network troubles.