devDucks
Going around in circles :-)
Man, I feel like Ground Hog's Day with AstroArch on a Pi 5.
I had everything up, working beautifully, then I turn the unit on and...nothing. I can't connect to it, either through a hardwired network (which I have been doing all along), and there's also no WiFi coming from it. Dead.
So I decide to flash an entirely different MicroSD card with ISO 1.9, then run "update-astroarch", it goes through it's motions, and I wind up with what you see below at the end.
So is this a Pi 5 thing? Will this ISO load into an Intel MiniPC instead? Why do these things keep on happening?
Thanks for your time.
Total Download Size: 1395.82 MiB Total Installed Size: 5755.13 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 594.76 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y :: Retrieving packages... kstars-3.7.5-1-aarch64 111.2 MiB 2.91 MiB/s 00:38 [------------------------------------] 100% chromium-131.0.6778.264-1-aarch64 85.7 MiB 1338 KiB/s 01:06 [------------------------------------] 100% astro_dmx-2.12.1-1-aarch64 45.4 MiB 4.62 MiB/s 00:10 [------------------------------------] 100% breeze-6.2.5-1-aarch64 88.4 MiB 967 KiB/s 01:34 [------------------------------------] 100% qt6-webengine-6.8.2-1-aarch64 72.3 MiB 759 KiB/s 01:38 [------------------------------------] 100% firefox-134.0.2-1-aarch64 56.1 MiB 973 KiB/s 00:59 [------------------------------------] 100% linux-firmware-20250109.7673dffd... 163.7 MiB 1558 KiB/s 01:48 [------------------------------------] 100% llvm-libs-19.1.7-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz failed to download Total ( 8/693) 1395.8 MiB 13.0 MiB/s 01:48 [------------------------------------] 100% error: failed retrieving file 'llvm-libs-19.1.7-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
The download stops due to a timeout when loading for too long. In a console, open the pacman configuration file with the command : sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf Then add the value below, just after the line "ParallelDownloads = 5"
DisableDownloadTimeout
Save the file with the ctrl+x+enter command
Restart your update-astroarch
Thanks. It appears perhaps an issue at the server end? I tried the update today and the updates went through, now the new card is fully updated.
However the system blacking out is a concern. Everything was working fine with that setup, had everything loaded and hardware set up, and then everything went dark. No network, no WiFi. I noticed when the system was starting up, the drive light would shut off for a few moments, then come back on, and that was it. I'll see how it goes with this new card.
Thanks again for your time.
Maybe the pi documentation on leds could help you if you have a breakdown https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/configuration.html#led-warning-flash-codes
I think this may be the broken mirror.archlinuxarm.org issue where it doesn't quite work properly to point you to the nearest mirror. I would manually configure the mirrors by reading this,
Edit - see https://github.com/devDucks/astroarch/issues/102
