Arch Mirrors Down?

I've been trying to upgrade my system using pacman but the main arch mirror was not responding. I went through other mirrors listed in /etc/pacman.d/current but none of them seem to be responding either, though my network connection is working fine otherwise.
What the hell is going on?

Same problem here, no idea what's going on.
This is UK, 23:23 GMT if it's any help. What a pain in the ass.
T

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Questions on running an Arch Mirror

Questions on running an Arch Mirror
Does anyone here run a public arch mirror that can give me any idea of bandwith they use ?
Is there any issues with running the Current and Extra mirrors in the US ?
Is there any issues with running the Community mirror in the US ?
Mostly I would like to know what bandwidth consumption on a public mirror is for the mirrors that are normally used. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

I don't think he would mind this info being posted... i emailed him asking for the bandwidth info for the server for a one month period.... an average.......
- we dont have
a record of actual data transferred, just the amount requested (which
stands at 5440.17 GB).
My server only allows approx 2500 GB transfer per month... so, until i can find a way to upgrade that, I won't make it a public server.... if i did, i'd owe WAY too much money at the end of every month

ARCH shutting down

Hi,
Today I was checking alert log of Oracle 10.2.0.2 instance and I noticed that after database startup archiver is stopped. That's what is written in alert log.
Database is in archive log mode and archive logs are generated but in the alert log I can found the following messages:
Wed Aug 30 08:12:21 2006
ARC0: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES
Wed Aug 30 08:12:21 2006
ARC1: Becoming the 'no FAL' ARCH
ARC1: Becoming the 'no SRL' ARCH
Wed Aug 30 08:12:21 2006
ARC2: Archival started
ARC0: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES COMPLETE
ARC0: Becoming the heartbeat ARCH
ARC2 started with pid=18, OS id=14206
Wed Aug 30 08:12:22 2006
Successfully onlined Undo Tablespace 1.
Wed Aug 30 08:12:22 2006
SMON: enabling tx recovery
Wed Aug 30 08:12:22 2006
Database Characterset is EE8ISO8859P2
replication_dependency_tracking turned off (no async multimaster replication found)
Starting background process QMNC
QMNC started with pid=19, OS id=14210
Wed Aug 30 08:12:26 2006
Completed: ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Wed Aug 30 08:12:27 2006
db_recovery_file_dest_size of 6048 MB is 0.00% used. This is a
user-specified limit on the amount of space that will be used by this
database for recovery-related files, and does not reflect the amount of
space available in the underlying filesystem or ASM diskgroup.
Wed Aug 30 08:13:21 2006
Shutting down archive processes
Wed Aug 30 08:13:26 2006
ARCH shutting down
ARC2: Archival stopped
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 1478
Current log# 1 seq# 1478 mem# 0: /databases/PRO/onlinelog/o1_mf_1_2gykwswf_.log
Current log# 1 seq# 1478 mem# 1: /u01/app/oracle/oradata/PRO/onlinelog/o1_mf_1_2gykwv70_.log
Database was started at 08:12:15 but at 08:13:21 there is a message that archive process has been shut down.
Checking the database:
SQL> SELECT LOG_MODE FROM SYS.V$DATABASE;
LOG_MODE
ARCHIVELOG
SQL> select * from V$ARCHIVE_PROCESSES;
PROCESS STATUS LOG_SEQUENCE STAT
0 ACTIVE 0 IDLE
1 ACTIVE 0 IDLE
2 STOPPED 0 IDLE
3 STOPPED 0 IDLE
4 STOPPED 0 IDLE
etc..
Does anybody know why are messages about stoping archival in alert log even if archive logs are generated?
regards,
Miha

Parameter log_archive_max_processes was set to 2. So two archival processes
were started at database startup. One was shut down because it was not needed.
That was the reason for the followin messages in alert log:
ARCH shutting down
ARC2: Archival stopped

Arch mirror to new drive [solved]

Hi guys, a newbie question here.
I wish move my current arch installation to a brand new drive using Clonezilla but the operation wasn't 100% successful. The mirroring operation from the old drive to the new one didn't give me any problems but I cannot boot into the new system. Grub lets me choose operating system (Arch or centos) but shortly after it gets stuck, throwing errors like: "failed to parse block device name for /dev/sda1".
I've tried editing my menu.lst by mounting the partition via Arch live-cd (but I don't really see why I have to change anything at all). The menu.lst file looks exactly the same as my old/current Arch's ditto. I also tried changing the UUID in root=/dev/uuid etc into root=/dev/sda1 but no joy. A desperate and probably long shot solution (at least in my mind!) was to generate a new mkinitcpio but that failed too saying it cannot find /boot/grub/kernel26 etc.
Did I miss something?
The reason for me wanting to move my Arch installation is that my Seagate is way too loud. The new drive is from Samsung. Same size. Supposedly quieter.
Any ideas?
Edit: the mkinitcpio is untouched, it's supposed to find all pata, scsi, sata etc.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by new2arch (2009-04-20 17:33:57)

dobedo wrote:Something helpfull in this thread? http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64027
Thanks for the tip. Will give it a try when I get back home today.
Possibly the mkinitcpio command didn't work as it should since I couldn't chroot into the new drive's partition for some reason (following the Arch Wiki, how to chroot). But I have to give it another shot checking out Blazercist's how-to.
"Anyhow this is basically what needs to be done to correct the problem.
1. Boot ArchLive
2. mkdir /media/disk
3. mount /dev/sdxX /media/disk
4. chroot /media/disk
5. mkinitcpio -k 2.6.28-ARCH -g /boot/kernel26.img
6. nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
7. Replace any references to UUID with /dev/sdxX (where xX represents your drive and partition) instead, save and exit nano.
8. reboot
Make sure and pay attention to the output of the mkinitcpio command in my step 5. If there are any errors relating to one or more of the hooks you'll need to edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and remove the hook it complains about !!IF POSSIBLE!!. I for example had some problem with the autodetect hook which caused my regular kernel to fail to create an image.
If mkinicpio doesn't complain and tells you it SUCCEEDED generating the images then you should be good to go."
Last edited by new2arch (2009-04-20 11:12:05)

Setting up an Arch mirror

Am i a bit confused? I can't find any documentation related to how to setting up a mirror for Arch.
Can someone explain these steps or has a documentation for that? Would be nice.
Thanks.

Well. Thanks Chris. But that isn't in any documentation, or?

Kernel 2.6.32-ARCH slows down and syslog-ng goes crazy *

Hi, it's a month now that randomly my computer slows down.
I took a look with "iotop" and found that syslog-ng was going crazy writing continuosly to the logfile.
taking a look at these files i found this message that gets written over and over again:
ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424)
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.AMW0.WMCA] (Node ffff8800bf4182c0), AE_TIME
here is my computer info
2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Any ideas on what's causing this error??
Last edited by .:B:. (2010-09-30 08:21:58)

Taking a look at dmesg i found this
ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c00-0x1c1f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [0x1c00-0x1c0f]
ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.PEGP.VGA_.MXMI: Excess arguments - needs 1, found 2 (20090903/nspredef-303)
ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.PEGP.VGA_.MXMS: Excess arguments - needs 1, found 2 (20090903/nspredef-303)
Don't know if it could be of any use..
here is my dmesg|grep ACPI
BIOS-e820: 00000000bfd64000 - 00000000bfd9f000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bfde3000 - 00000000bfdfe000 (ACPI data)
modified: 00000000bfd64000 - 00000000bfd9f000 (ACPI NVS)
modified: 00000000bfde3000 - 00000000bfdfe000 (ACPI data)
ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f7160 00024 (v02 PTLTD )
ACPI: XSDT 00000000bfdf47ec 0005C (v01 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 06040000 INNA 00000000)
ACPI: FACP 00000000bfde5000 000F4 (v03 INTEL CRESTLNE 06040000 ALAN 00000001)
ACPI: DSDT 00000000bfde6000 0939E (v02 Intel CANTIGA 06040000 MSFT 03000000)
ACPI: FACS 00000000bfd9efc0 00040
ACPI: HPET 00000000bfdfdd86 00038 (v01 INTEL CRESTLNE 06040000 LOHR 0000005A)
ACPI: MCFG 00000000bfdfddbe 0003C (v01 INTEL CRESTLNE 06040000 LOHR 0000005A)
ACPI: SLIC 00000000bfdfddfa 00176 (v01 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 06040000 ANNI 00000001)
ACPI: APIC 00000000bfdfdf70 00068 (v01 PTLTD ? APIC 06040000 LTP 00000000)
ACPI: BOOT 00000000bfdfdfd8 00028 (v01 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 06040000 LTP 00000001)
ACPI: SSDT 00000000bfde4000 00655 (v01 PmRef CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
ACPI: Core revision 20090903
ACPI: bus type pci registered
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: No dock devices found.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEGP._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP01._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP02._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP03._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP04._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP05._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *10 11)
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
ACPI: SSDT 00000000bfd1aca0 00223 (v01 PmRef Cpu0Ist 00003000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT 00000000bfd19620 00549 (v01 PmRef Cpu0Cst 00003001 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Sleep Button [SLPB]
ACPI: WMI: Mapper loaded
acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS0] (55 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS1] (56 C)
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c00-0x1c1f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [0x1c00-0x1c0f]
ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
ACPI: SSDT 00000000bfd1aa20 001CF (v01 PmRef ApIst 00003000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT 00000000bfd1af20 0008D (v01 PmRef ApCst 00003000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery absent)
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.PEGP.VGA_.MXMI: Excess arguments - needs 1, found 2 (20090903/nspredef-303)
ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.PEGP.VGA_.MXMS: Excess arguments - needs 1, found 2 (20090903/nspredef-303)
EDIT:
keeping an eye on kernel.log, i got these errors before it started going nuts
Jan 27 12:31:32 deathstar kernel: CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
Jan 27 12:32:03 deathstar kernel: CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
Jan 27 12:52:55 deathstar kernel: CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec
Jan 27 13:26:00 deathstar kernel: CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 50624 nsec
Jan 27 14:01:08 deathstar kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424)
Jan 27 14:01:08 deathstar kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ_.TZS0._TMP] (Node ffff8800bf41c700), AE_TIME
Jan 27 14:01:09 deathstar kernel: ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
Jan 27 14:01:09 deathstar kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424)
Last edited by z3r0 (2010-01-27 13:03:23)

Is My Mirror Down?

I am getting an error when I try an perform a system upgrade on my server:
[carlos@ghost ~]$ sudo pacman -Syy & sudo pacman -Syu
[1] 1162
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (5): glibc-2.12-4 man-pages-3.25-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20100621-1 sudo-1.7.2p7-2 udev-158-1
Total Download Size: 0.32 MB
Total Installed Size: 50.80 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
pacman-mirrorlist-20100621-1-any 2.4K 99.0K/s 00:00:00 [#############################################################] 100%
sudo-1.7.2p7-2-x86_64 109.2K 519.1K/s 00:00:00 [#############################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'udev-158-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu : Service not available, closing control connection
warning: failed to retrieve some files from core
error: failed to commit transaction (Service not available, closing control connection)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[1]+ Stopped sudo pacman -Syy
Below is my Pacman configuration file:
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

Hello,
I'm having the same problem, getting for the most of the repositories nearby my location a "Service not available, closing control connection". I used the aria2 method given in "Improve Pacman performance" in the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … erformance), and it works now very well. What was curious, is that to install a single file, pacman alone works very well, but to make an update on the entire system, pacman just seem to be thrown out by the server after some 1-4 connections. So my question is : what is pacman doing that is not allowed by the servers ?
Joël

Swedish Arch Mirror [split]

thanks,
yeah, we should have swedish mirror also,
i wonder if it's possible to get arch on sunet?
edit: here: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions

ok ,i got an answer,
translated from swedish :
As for now we are very restrictive with adding new distros to the server but we are putting Archlinux on the request list.
greets
[email protected]
doesn't look so good to me,

Mirror Down - locke.suu.edu

This mirror (ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/) has been down the past couple days. Not sure if developers want this reported or if this is even the right place but I figured at worst I'll get an earful.

That link demonstrates why I use mirror.pacific.net.au... It gets updates 1 day before they come out. From now on I am going to just think "I will update that packages in community tomorrow", then go to that mirror and download the already built package. Not sure how I will update the PKGBUILD though... we should mirror them too!

Arch Mirrors Layout

Hi:
I'm trying to set up a mirror of your server in order to provide arch pakages to my community and I have a question.
Since I saw this mail list message I thought there's no reason for having a folder named 'any' under every repo folder.
Is there any hidden reason for this or it is just cause not every package has migrated to the new layout yet ?
Thxs.

erick.red wrote:I want to know something.
When package a-25.pkg.tar.gz is in testing is uploaded to pool/packages right ?
in pool/packages are uploaded packages from core/extra/testing/gnome-unstable/kde-unstable/staging and in pool/community the rest.
Now when the same version of the package is moved to core, the package is not re-uploaded, just the link moved eh ?
Am I right ?
you are correct. that was the whole point of implementing a pool directory. mirrors sync the actually package once and on move, they sync only the symlinks

Is this person trying to attack Arch mirrors or just very confused?

2009/01/03 23:11:12 [9566] rsync on archlinux/(unstable|community|etc)/ from UNKNOWN (203.86.[...])
This client's been sending list-your-files requests on /archlinux/*/ every couple of minutes for 12 hours, causing a bit of server load. Anyone else seeing this?

I don't mirror arch files.... but can't you block the ip address?

What's the best Arch mirror for India ?

I have tried the Israeli mirror, a few european mirrors and even the US based mirrors, but none of them give me good download speeds.
Can some users in India tell me which might be a good mirror to use. I used to get amazing speeds from a few US mirrors when I was in the US. I am trying to set this up for my parents here in India so that they can have good speeds.

Ok I tried the rankmirrors and also replaced the mirrorlist with the new one that was generated. But it still does not help. I tried updating the system today and it had to download about 111 MB worth of data and its been 3 hours now and it still hasnt finished. I am not sure if its a problem at the mirrors or my machine.
Locally the applications start up pretty quickly so my machine is not lagging in that regards.
What could be the issue?

Arch shuts down on screensaver

Hello
So yesterday 11/19/14 I did a full system upgrade. So now I am having an issue when my screensaver is activated. After a few minutes on the screen saver, maybe less, my laptop shuts down. I am using xscreensaver and xfce. I am not too sure what to do to try to diagnose the problem. Any help would be great. Thanks.

So this is what I have found in the journal these seemed to have occured about when a shutdown happened
Nov 20 21:23:31 archultrabook kernel: PM: Hibernation mode set to 'platform'
Nov 20 21:23:31 archultrabook systemd-sleep[1181]: Suspending system...
Nov 20 21:25:35 archultrabook kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
Nov 20 21:25:35 archultrabook kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI
Nov 20 21:25:35 archultrabook kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
Nov 20 21:25:35 archultrabook kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20140724/utaddress-258)
These two "power" related things were updated
[2014-11-19 19:06] [PACMAN] upgraded upower (0.99.0-2 -> 0.99.1-2)
[2014-11-19 19:07] [PACMAN] upgraded xfce4-power-manager (1.2.0.212.g75107db-1 -> 1.4.1-2)
Last edited by w1ll1am (2014-11-21 02:41:16)

Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

I am pleased to announce that a new Arch Mirror is up in the US, after a long time working to get everything set up we have created a our first open source mirror project, please add us to your repository lists, our server is very fast!
ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/
-Thomas S Hatch
Southern Utah University
Last edited by Ryujin (2007-04-14 15:45:41)

soloport wrote:
Ryujin wrote:I just set this server up and ftp has only been available for a day, I will have rsync up soon but it is not my top priority.
Ryujin,
Thanks again!
The reason rsync is nice, it supports a --delete flag (if I've missed something in 'man wget', please let me know).
Try 'help mirror' in lftp.

Arch linux doesn't boot after installing AMD ATI Catalyst

I have a laptop which has a integrated graphic card intel 4th generation (4600) and an AMD ATI R9 m265x (hybrid Intel/AMD graphics card) so I have just installed AMD ATI Catalyst proprietary ones by following
AMD Catalyst ArchWiki.
I have used "Installing from the unofficial repository" method so in my pacman.conf I have added below entry for [catalyst-stable]:
[catalyst-stable]
Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/catalyst/$arch
## Mirrors, if the primary server does not work or is too slow:
#Server = http://70.239.162.206/catalyst-mirror/repo/catalyst/$arch
#Server = http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/archlinux-catalyst/repo/catalyst/$arch
#Server = http://mirror.hactar.bz/Vi0L0/catalyst/$arch
Then I have update pacman's database and install below packages:
catalyst-hook
catalyst-utils-pxp
lib32-catalyst-utils-pxp
(No need to install catalyst-total-pxp as I have installed catalyst-utils-pxp)
After installing it, I have configured the driver, configuring X using below command:
# aticonfig --initial
In order to use PowerXpress support I have installed catalyst-utils-pxp package plus additional lib32-catalyst-utils-pxp.
To perform a switch into Intel's IGP I have also installed the mesa-libgl package and Intel's drivers: xf86-video-intel and intel-dri .
I have enable the automatic update by enabling the catalyst-hook.service with below commands since it automatically rebuilds the fglrx modules while the system shuts down or reboots (so I haven't to do it manually each time kernel is updated using Catalyst-generator):
# systemctl enable catalyst-hook
# systemctl start catalyst-hook
And finally I have blacklisted radeon module by creating "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklisted.conf" file which content is:
blacklist radeon
and also I have ensured that fglrx line is added in "/etc/modules-load.d/Catalyst.conf" file.
To avoid problems, I have rebuilt the fglrx module by doing (I know it is not necessary as it is done by catalyst-hook):
catalyst_build_module all
Once I reboot, arch linux does not boot. Last lines printed out are below and then it freezes:
Starting temp files linker to catalyst...
Starting Catalyst event Daemon...
[ OK ] Started Catalyst event Daemon
Starting Catalyst's fglrx kernel' module builder...
[ OK ] Started temp files linker for catalyst.
[ OK ] Started Catalyst's fglrx kernel' modue builder.
[ OK ] Started gnome Display manager.
[ OK ] Started Network manager.
[ OK ] Reached target Multi-User system.
[ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface.
[ OK ] Reached target Network.
I have tried to put nomodeset as a kernel parameter but it does not work. Also, after reading ArchWiki, I have noticed that it is recommended to don't do this as I am using catalyst-utils-pxp because intel driver needs it so I have removed nomodeset parameter from kernel but It continues not working.
Any ideas?
Package versions:
Kernel version 3.17.6-1-ARCH
catalyst-hook 14.12-1
catalyst-utils-pxp 14.12-1
lib32-catalyst-utils-pxp 14.12-1
xorg-server 1.16.2.901-1
xf86-video-intel 2.99.916-3
Last edited by toni (2014-12-13 19:38:38)

FInally I managed to boot arch linux.
I had to downgrade xorg-server from 1.16.2.901-1 to 1.15.2-1.
It seems there is a problem with Catalyst 14.12-1 and xorg-server 1.16.2.901-1.
Also I had to replace desktop manager from gdm to lightdm as gdm raises segmentation faults using xorg-server versions 1.16.2.901-1 and 1.15.2-1.
Finally I had to add an entry in pacman.conf:
[xorg115]
Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/xorg115/$arch
## Mirrors, if the primary server does not work or is too slow:
#Server = http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/archlinux-catalyst/repo/xorg115/$arch
#Server = http://mirror.hactar.bz/Vi0L0/xorg115/$arch
Then performs following actions:
1) # pacman -Syuu catalyst-hook catalyst-utils-pxp
2) Uninstall all the packages xf86* such as xf86-video-intel, xf86-input-evdev, xf86-input-synaptics, etc.
3) Install the packages uninstalled in step 2 and install them again using xorg115 repo, for example, # pacman -S xorg115/xf86-video-intel xorg115/xf86-input-evdev xorg115/xf86-input-synaptics
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Last edited by toni (2014-12-14 12:31:29)

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