On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 20:08 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.01.2014 19:33, schrieb Mark E. Lee: > > However, I suggest an announcement on the website regarding this > > problem. > > No. > > > I had three issues when trying to solve this problem: > > 1) the mirror I was using wasn't up to date (still had > > libgcrypt-1.5.3-1) > > You see, that is impossible. The package database contains either both > the old pth and old libgcrypt, or both the new pth and new libgcrypt. > > > 3) Failure to update libgcrypt before other packages resulted in a > > kernel that seemed to be hung at booting. > > Sorry, I can't see how that would be related in any way. > Salutations, Regarding your package database argument; here's the output of pacman -S libgcrypt : ---- core/libgcrypt 1.5.3-1 [installed: 1.6.0-1] General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG Here's the output of pacman -S pth : ---- core/pth 2.0.7-5 [installed] The GNU Portable Threads. Here's my mirrorlist : ----- Server = http://mirror.umd.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.rutgers.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.nexcess.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.liquidweb.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://arch.mirror.constant.com/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://ord.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.vtti.vt.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.aggregate.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.cecsresearch.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://dfw.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.xmission.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://archlinux.surlyjake.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://cake.lib.fit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.lax1.thegcloud.com/arch/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.metrocast.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch ------ Clearly we have new pth and old libgcrypt; but as I stated that's not the serious issue. Regards, Mark -- Mark Lee <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>