Ok: thanks to the *excellent* Arch Wiki I had the idea too boot from the Arch CD and take a look at /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. To my surprise, or not, once I copy it to my Arch install it worked allright. I remember some days ago there was a discussion about how useful could be using "Architecture = auto" instead "686" or "x86_64" in /etc/pacman.conf. Since /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist uses two variables passed by pacman which first read in it's config file, may be a bug relating that's preventing pacman from accesing repositories? Also, weird enough, why in the world [catalyst] Server = http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst/x86_64 don't work!? Repo is online and perfectly accesible via web. Also it don't use any variable in the url so what's going on here? Getting more and more confused... Martin
