I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu
but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 46•3 months ago
The “Arch breaks on updates” meme is about 20 years out of date.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 31•3 months ago
Almost as old as the last Debian update.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 14•3 months ago
I run Slackware. Debian is much too unstable for my taste.
- bobs_monkey ( @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 10•3 months ago
I mean, I had a mainline kernel update bork my system last month
- jbk ( @jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•3 months ago
jokes on you one of my not so much into linux friends had it and his setup kept breaking, now he’s about to install fedora
- Daemon Silverstein ( @dsilverz@thelemmy.club ) English17•3 months ago
You didn’t specify which problem or which thing that broke. However (and based on my previous experiences on that matter), one could face a problem regarding package PGP/GPG signatures upon trying to update. This is because
archlinux-keyring
is not being updated before the signature checking. That said, a better approach is to always updatearchlinux-keyring
(sudo pacman -S --needed archlinux-keyring
) before anything else (sudo pacman -Syu
). This way, you guarantee to be up-to-date with developer signatures, needed for pacman to check the validity for every package to be updated/installed. There’s also apacman-key
command, but I never had to use that.- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 5•3 months ago
I think it’s just sarcasm for the memes from the OP, asking why nothing breaks and what is he doing wrong. The expected behavior is to break.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 9•3 months ago
not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?
Love it. xD
- Mactan ( @mactan@lemmy.ml ) 6•3 months ago
every time Ive has a problem it was keyring or bootloader
- theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) 4•3 months ago
Same. Except that one time I forgot to charge my laptop and my battery decided it will go to 0% during a kernel update. Charge, Reboot into live iso, arch-chroot, do update. Reboot into normal system, all good. A 5 minute job, but it’s the most serious issue I’ve had to deal with, alongside the keyring issues once which were solved by an Erik Dubois video, a 15-minute fix incuding the video runtime.
- bellsDoSing ( @bellsDoSing@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months ago
Somewhat recently I caused a failed kernel update by accident:
Ran system update in tmux session (local session on desktop). But problem was that tmux itself got also updated, which crashed the tmux session and as a result crashed the kernel update. Only realized it upon the following reboot (which no longer worked).
Your described solution re “live ISO, chroot, run system update once more, reboot” was also what got me out of that situation. So certainly something worth learning for “general troubleshooting” purposes re system updates.
- Responsabilidade ( @BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ) 4•3 months ago
Try run reflector
run0 reflector -l 10 -f 5 >> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
- swab148 ( @swab148@lemm.ee ) 3•3 months ago
run0 😤
- Responsabilidade ( @BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ) 3•3 months ago
I was waiting for this moment 😹😹😹
But I actually am using run0
- swab148 ( @swab148@lemm.ee ) 1•3 months ago
I have no actual problem with it, the only reason I don’t is that it’s harder to type
- Responsabilidade ( @BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ) 1•3 months ago
That’s true… But once you get used to it, you don’t even notice that you write run0
Thanks—I am running the zen kernel because I didn’t really understand the question during archinstall, and have added an AUR helper but still no lack of joy.
I’ll definitely give this a go—probably on Friday afternoon.
- Responsabilidade ( @BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ) 2•3 months ago
I misunderstood your post. This command I told you is to make things better, not worse haha
If you really wanna make your Arch unstable, you may wanna install every single package with
pacman -Sy
Also maybe you wanna install everything from AUR
lol! There’s such a mix of people being genuinely helpful and people telling me the joke is past its sell-by date. But I hadn’t come across reflector before and will definitely give it a go—thanks :)
- bkuri ( @bkuri@lemm.ee ) 1•3 months ago
Please don’t run arbitrary commands just because someone on the Internet told you to use them.
The arch wiki will tell you all you need to know and more.
- gerdesj ( @gerdesj@lemmy.ml ) English1•3 months ago
What on earth went wrong?
Arch is just as safe as any other distro, sometimes more so. Being a rolling jobbie, smaller bits tend to break at a time. If you want to live life on the edge then Gentoo is your man but even Gentoo is becoming pretty safe. You might lose your windowing system for a while but you still have links2 to get to a search engine.
- ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English2•3 months ago
Read the post, literally nothing ☺️