After the recent update to kernel 5.10, my boot freezes at the motherboard splash screen. I assume this has to do with my having an Nvidia card (see mhwd output below), so I attempted to uninstall and then reinstall my video drivers. Both sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 and sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300 gave the same error:
failed to update multilib (invalid url for server)
failed to synchronize all databases
pacman failed!
script failed!
Attempting to run sudo pacman -Syu gives me a similar error.
Runnning sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu gives me the failed to update multilib (invalid url for server) and failed to synchronize all databases errors.
I’m wondering if this might be an issue with my Internet connection (although I have no reason to believe I’m not connected). How would I test my Internet connection, and/or connect to a Wi-Fi network using only the terminal?
I have neither outside proxies nor firewalls in place on my home network, no. I didn’t get any error messages when I manually connected to my network using ntmui, and I have no issue accessing the Internet from other devices connected to the same network, nor does this machine have a history of connectivity problems after an update, so I have no immediate reason to assume Internet trouble. Are there steps I can take to ascertain that whether my machine is properly connected?
