Yes, edit the mirror list to include just a few US sites and you should have better results. You can delete a lot of foreign servers or comment them out with #.
- Jim
(***See update/edits at end of post***)
I added a few of the current USA sites to the mirrorlist file and it still comes back with the exact same error. It’s as if it’s still defaulting to the no longer existing repo.archlinux.fr site. I don’t see anywhere in the pacman conf settings referring to that site, it only refers to the mirrorlist file.
EDIT: I just noticed under etc/ there is a file called pacman and a file called pacman.conf. Included at the bottom of the pacman file is this (it’s not in the pacman.conf file)
[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server =
http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
Am I correct this is saying that the Salkstream is running the custom package archlinuxfr and updates are found at
http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch? I read somewhere ( here:
http://repo.archlinux.fr/ ) that this site is gone. Does this mean the particular version of archlinux (archlinuxfr) cannot be update, and a new version would have to be installed? Or can I just edit the pacman file so that it doesn’t default to the non existent site? If so, what exactly what text there should I edit?
UPDATE/EDIT: With the help of someone on the Roon Forum (here's the thread, today's activities starts at post# 30, or skip to post 58 to skip to where I made progress and got the update to work
https://community.roonlabs.com/t/help-updating-arch-linux/267561/31 ). Long story short, I think I may have jumped the gun a bit. I got archlinux to update, albeit there were some warning messages at the end that seem to indicate some missing drivers (according to the person on Roon forum helping me). After the update, the Salkstream rebooted fine and Roon is working; optical spdif output, streaming to my Squeezebox Touch, and streaming to iPad/iPhone are all working fine. However, now the HDMI output does not work and AirPlay seems to be missing. I'm guessing the warning messages are related to these drivers/features missing? Would it be better to continue this conversation via email? I saved a copy of the warning messages if you would like to see them. Also, any help you could offer to get HDMI and AirPlay working again would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you. I greatly appreciate you time and help!
UPDATE/EDIT2: False alarm on the HDMI output. I noticed in Roon audio settings that one of the HDMI options looked different than before. I enable that HDMI option and now it works. I just had to change which HDMI option I was using. So the only thing not working now is AirPlay. I'll need help fixing that one.