Using pacman on fails on i686 machine (Chromebook) #28

mpollow · 2017-12-14T00:55:52Z

I successfully installed ArchLinux in Termux with your script on my Chromebook. However, pacman cannot make a connection to any of the servers that I uncomment in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. Adding archstrike and/or blackarch in pacman.conf also does not help.

In Termux itself I am connected and can install stuff with apt.

Here my system information (I am using the latest install script):
1 uname -mo
i686 Android ("i686 GNU/Linux" from within the Arch environment)
2 getprop ro.product.cpu.abi
x86
3 getprop ro.product.device
relm_cheets
4 ls -al ~/arch
see screenshot

Any ideas? Looking forward to use Arch in Termux...

ghost · 2017-12-14T14:07:59Z

On a stock TermuxArch install, without uncommenting your prefered hosts, can you update(or have any kind of network acess such as ping)?
If no, do cat /etc/resolv.conf and give us the output.
Thanks

mpollow · 2017-12-14T14:25:44Z

No, network at all on stock TermuxArch install, also no response on ping. I will post later my resolv.conf when I am back at the Chromebook. Thanks! On Dec 14, 2017 15:08, "Sofia" <[email protected]> wrote: On a stock TermuxArch install, without uncommenting your prefered hosts, can you update(or have any kind of network acess such as ping)? If no, do cat /etc/resolv.conf and give us the output. Thanks — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#28 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADphsKtZTAAyONr1AB1EqqRmesiWWObyks5tASvAgaJpZM4RBZZr> .

mpollow · 2017-12-14T21:54:49Z

The resolv.conf contains the Google DNS nameservers:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Actually I cannot even ping, as the ping command is not found. Also vi is not installed. The machine is a brand new Acer Chromebook, should be nothing special about it.

Calling pacman -Syu fails both for no servers uncommented and some servers uncommented in the mirrorlist (I have to do the editing in vi before calling startarch). Problem seems to be indeed the network itself and not pacman.

Hope to get it running! Thank you for your support!

SDRausty · 2017-12-14T22:57:24Z

@Bambooeater what is the output from which ping in Arch Linux in Termux PRoot? Check .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc for specific network configurations. Do you have any such entries in these files in Termux $HOME that should be migrated to Arch $HOME?

Try with just Server = http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo this line uncommented in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and do not set ArchStrike or BlackArch up until you are finished setting up Arch Linux in Termux. Setting Arch Linux up including updating is a prerequisite to either of the other two versions.

mpollow · 2017-12-14T23:08:26Z

I don't even have a which command in ArchLinux in PRoot. There are also no config files (.profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc) at all. It is a fresh installation of termux and basically the first thing I did then was to install PRoot with ArchLinux (I tried to install via wget and via git, same effect). Networks works in termux, not in PRoot.

mpollow · 2017-12-14T23:12:18Z

BTW it is a Acer N7 Chromebook, with an Intel processor. Does PRoot only work with ARM, possibly?

SDRausty · 2017-12-14T23:24:40Z

What is the output on your machine when you do this?

$ startarch
Welcome to Arch Linux in Termux!  Enjoy!

Chat:    https://gitter.im/termux/termux/
Help:    info <query> and man <query>
Portal:  https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Community

Install a package: pacman -S <package>
More  information: pacman [-D|F|Q|R|S|T|U] --help
Search   packages: pacman -Ss <query>
Upgrade  packages: pacman -Syu
[23:22 home ]$ cd
[23:22 ~ ]$ ls -al
total 32
drwxr-x---  4 root root 4096 Dec 11 07:57 .
drwx------ 18 root root 4096 Dec 14 23:22 ..
-rw-------  1 root root    2 Dec 11 07:57 .bash_history
-rw-------  1 root root  215 Dec 11 04:16 .bash_profile
-rw-------  1 root root  517 Dec 11 04:16 .bashrc
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Dec 11 04:47 bin
drwx------  3 root root 4096 Dec  3 18:39 .gnupg
-rw-------  1 root root   22 Dec 11 04:16 .profile

Is your result similar?

mpollow · 2017-12-15T00:23:59Z

Yeah, my /root folder looks the same. My .bash_profile is smaller (only 80 Bytes), containing:
. $HOME/.bashrc
PS1="[\A\[\033[0;32m\] \W \[\033[0m\]]\$ "

BTW, how do I copy and paste in Termux (I retyped the .bash_profile, as I didnt know how to c/p)?

SDRausty · 2017-12-15T00:48:51Z

@Bambooeater This http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_02_02.html should make interesting reading from http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html See section 3.3.2.2.3. 'Copying files' for answers to your copy and paste question.

Output from setupTermuxArch.sh --sysinfo and ip route in Termux is requested.
ip route output from Arch Linux in Termux PRoot is wanted too.

mpollow · 2017-12-15T01:02:24Z

Thanks for the link. Actually I know how to copy files in linux. I just do not know how to use a clipboard from within termux (to paste here). I can store for example the output of setupTermuxArch.sh --sysinfo in a file, but don't know how to paste it here.

$ ip route
100.115.92.0/30 dev arc0 proto kernel scope link src 100.115.92.2

In PRoot I do not have the ip command.

ghost · 2017-12-15T14:02:28Z

Try reinstalling the arch chroot and tell us if that fixes it

mpollow · 2017-12-15T14:08:45Z

Tried already. Flashed the Chromebook by enabling the developer more and reinstalled Termux and TermuxArch. Exactly the same happened, no network access in PRoot.

ghost · 2017-12-18T09:39:16Z

Arch Linux does not support i686 architecture in repositories, but it has a project that supports this architecture and you can use the mirrors of that project by placing them in the mirrorlist

https://archlinux32.org/

I use i686 architecture on my smartphone and pacman is working with these mirrors

mpollow · 2017-12-19T01:07:11Z

Great hint, EsdrasTarsis. Using one of the archlinux32 servers brings me one step further, pacman can retrieve data.

However, I cannot install the keyring-transition successfully using pacman -Syy archlinux32-keyring-transition as described on https://archlinux32.org/download/
I am getting the error message (even though I am root):
could not change the root directory (Function not implemented)
error: command failed to execute correctly

ghost · 2017-12-19T02:47:57Z

Try to run these commands to see if it works
pacman -Syuu

rm -r arch/etc/pacman.d/gnupg

pacman -S gnupg archlinux32-keyring

pacman-key --init

pacman-key --populate archlinux32

pacman-key --refresh-keys

pacman -Sc

SDRausty · 2017-12-19T07:11:40Z

@esdrastarsis @Soph1a7 Thank you for assistance with this important i686 matter.

ghost · 2017-12-19T16:01:23Z

If the arch linux 32 project had a bootstrap in the mirrors of the isos, we could put it in the script, so no one would have problems with the arch in the i686 architecture

mpollow · 2017-12-19T16:54:18Z

It would be nice to make it easier, I agree. My Arch installation is now running. @esdrastarsis latest commands didn't help me to solve the issue. I could work myself around, by setting ignoring the key requirement in /etc/pacman.conf(by changing the SigLevel line to SigLevel = Never). Of course, this is not the optimal solution. If I do not disable this option I get the invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature) error message. Another issue is that pacman-key --populate archlinux32 hangs forever (pacman-key --init runs fine).

Also without key requirement, I also do get error messages with pacman: could not change the root directory (Function not implemented)

Did a test install on my Android ARM phone, everything works out of the box like a charm. Maybe we should reopen this issue using a better title, as i686 Chromebooks definitely still have issues with ArchTermux.

SDRausty · 2017-12-19T20:35:27Z

Function i686 in https://github.com/sdrausty/TermuxArch/blob/master/scripts/files/stable/knownconfigurations.sh wants updating to https://archive.archlinux.org/iso/2017.12.01/ and archlinux-bootstrap-2017.12.01-x86_64.tar.gz with on device testing. It seems i686 is currently unfrozen! Your assistance is welcome.

mpollow · 2017-12-19T21:05:25Z

Thank you @SDRausty. Using current archlinux32 as suggested by @esdrastarsis is probably the best idea. I am afraid I won't find the time to test things out thoroughly in near future.

After switching to archlinux32 gnupg complained for a version mismatch with libassuan, so mixing the frozen version and modules from the archlinux32 repo should be probably avoided.

Thanks all for your helpful comments and your work on this project.

ghost · 2017-12-20T15:38:25Z

@SDRausty If the arch linux 32 mirrors have the arch bootstrap I will do a pull request

SDRausty · 2017-12-20T18:48:51Z

@esdrastarsis Great! Using scripts/maintenance/makedownload.sh in scripts/files/stable will generate setupTermuxArch.tar.gz and setupTermuxArch.md5 after modifying knownconfigurations.sh.

SDRausty · 2017-12-21T13:20:42Z

"vi: command not found" #21 and sed similar seem related. @Soph1a7 has pushed beautiful code regarding self update to newest online boot image download for similar architecture. Hopefully it will be useful in i686 necessary functions.

SDRausty · 2017-12-21T15:01:12Z

It seems i686 is currently unfrozen!

Wishful thinking which might be possible.

"as there is still some interest in keeping i686 alive, we would like to encourage the community to make it happen with our guidance. The arch-ports mailing list and #archlinux-ports IRC channel on Freenode will be used for further coordination. "

https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/ has details.

SDRausty · 2017-12-21T15:34:51Z

Here is "Community maintained repos. i686" https://archlinux32.org/ another link which might make boot images possible.

SDRausty · 2017-12-22T01:46:00Z

My Arch installation is now running.

Thanks for the update 🔆🌅🌑🎼

SDRausty · 2018-03-01T04:09:24Z

@Bambooeater @esdrastarsis pacman-key --populate archlinux hangs on arm; Any suggestions?

pacman-key --populate archlinux
==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg...
==> Locally signing trusted keys in keyring...
  -> Locally signing key DDB867B92AA789C165EEFA799B729B06A680C281...
  -> Locally signing key 684148BB25B49E986A4944C55184252D824B18E8...

SDRausty · 2018-03-03T19:56:13Z

Upstream has resolved this issue termux/proot#10 (comment) after working on this topic afaict, @michalbednarski has found:

pacman-key --init
echo disable-scdaemon > /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
pacman-key --populate

Use this code to resolve pacman-key --populate archlinux issues with Arch Linux in Termux PRoot. Before using pacman-key --populate archlinux, run pacman -S archlinux-keyring first.

Arch x86 and x86_64 results are requested, arm results as well pertaining to finishsetup.sh and pacman-key. If a post setup autoconfiguration with update script is deemed wanted for setupTermuxArch.sh regarding pacman-key, this can be done on a per architecture basis.

SDRausty · 2018-03-21T06:56:47Z

Commit f16c27d adds Arch Linux IRC channel upstream contact information to the TermuxArch motd and logout.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IRC_channel for available Arch Linux IRC channels.

SDRausty closed this as completed Dec 19, 2017

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mpollow changed the title ~~No network access after installation on Chromebook~~ Using pacman on fails on i686 machine (Chromebook) Dec 20, 2017

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