Trying to install archlabs on my labtop. It says no connection. However I am able to ping before running installer the internet is working, but archlabs say no connection. Is there a way around this? any help would be great thanks!
If you have a connection then you should be fine to keep going with installer, ie you are able to ping before running the installer. But a little more info on the archlabs says âno connectionâ might help.
something likeâŚ
netstat -ie
enter nm-tui before you start the installer and connect, are you on wifi or ethernet?
Itâs nmtui (no dash between) or nmtui-connect and the installer will open it if you arenât connectedâŚ
The installer does the following to verify connection.
curl -sIN 'https://www.archlinux.org/' | sed 1q | grep 200
Note we donât care about Google or other sites, if you canât reach archlinux.org with a 200 OK response then you wonât be able to install.
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Ah yes apologies. I blame the head cold. Donât sneeze and post.
thanks everyone for the help!
its working now
bit more info of what was happening.
I was able to ping all websites before running the installer. When I ran the installer it would check connection and kick me to nmtui to select my connection after selecting my connection Ethernet, it would say no connection no matter what including rebooting. I am using cloudflare for dns. Not really sure why but its working now.
So I ran nmtui before the installer then ran archlabs-installer and it works now thanks!
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I have a connection, but the line
curl -sIN âhttps://www.archlinux.org/â | sed 1q | grep 200
Returns nothing, seems to be a certificate issue, as I run the same line on a working Archlabs PC and it returns: HTTP/2 200
So I am unable to get archlabs-installer working unless I go in and modify the scriptâŚ
UPDATE: New PC BIOS did not have date and time set yet. Once set, all was good.
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Iâve never seen something like that before, how would that not be set?
The time and date was set, but it was 5 months in the past!
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Haha! At least it was easy enough to correct.
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Iâve dealt with time and HTTPS issues for years, why I didnât immediately think it is beyond me!
Keep up the great work. Love this distro!
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Well @badmark , sometimes stuff happens & when we think about it afterward we re surprsed as why we haven t taught about it then ! lol
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Just had this issue, new computer thought it was 2005 some how. Anyways thank you for the post
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Hello,
Tried to install archlabs after wanting to have a leaner version of arch from manjaro.
Keep having this no connection problem during installation. Checked the BIOS date/time and tried running nmtui before the archlabs installer to no avail, Tried both wired and wireless connections, can âactivateâ them, yet the same error message keeps popping afterwards. Hope to be able to try Archlabs out.
Can you
ping -c1 archlinux.org
If so you can edit /usr/bin/archlabs-installer around line 2497 replace the chk_connect() function with the following
chk_connect()
{
msg "Network Connect" "\nVerifying network connection\n" 0
ping -qc1 'archlinux.org' > /dev/null 2>&1
}
If not then you will need to troubleshoot your connection issues and go from there.
Thanks natemaia,
Used that ping command, packet transmitted, received, no loss for archlinux. Unfortunately, unfamiliar with command line syntax to edit the archlabs_installer (still a newbie with linux, even though used ubuntu/manjaro for some time now). Can you please point me to a tutorial on how to do such tasks? Distro hopping with this old laptop (it had manjaro/ bunsenlabs/ mabox/ etc.), it was the first time it had this warning.
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Ok then itâs likely ssl errors from curl.
An alternative to my above solution would be to enable the archlabs_unstable repository in /etc/pacman.conf by uncommenting the lines (remove leading #). Use something like vim or nano (cli text editors), there are manual pages man nano, help flags nano -h, and thereâs lots of tutorials out there as well.
# /etc/pacman.conf
[archlabs_unstable]
Server = https://bitbucket.org/archlabslinux/$repo/raw/master/$arch
After that you should be able to run
pacman -Syy archlabs-installer
The latest installer version has the change listed above just has yet to move to stable.
First up Iâd like to say that the installer issue shouldnât happen, you shouldnât be expected to edit the installer for a distro so my apologies but that doesnât impact my next point. If doing things like editing text and running commands isnât something youâre comfortable with I donât think this is a great distro and you will likely have a bad time. Though we may have a (somewhat functional, somewhat easy) installer youâll still be expected to be familiar with using and maintaining an arch system. Donât let me dissuade you though, everyone starts somewhere and if youâre wanting/willing to learn then welcome aboard.
Cheers
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