System clock wont synchronise

[neat quest]

I have tried to install arch using the archinstall script but it got stuck on waiting for time sync and tells me to go to the known issues site. I checked timedatectl and it said NTP service active but System clock synchronised no. I restarted systemd-timesyncd.service as suggested on as suggested on the known issues page but that didnt do anything timedatectrl showed still the same. Then i looked at the timesyncd.conf but didnt know what to do with it so i just pinged the first fallback server and it worked fine. Then since the time was still correct i just did archinstall --skip-ntp but that got stuck on keyring sync

[austere grail]

Your ISO is probably outdated and the keyring can't sync.

killall gpg-agent && rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg && pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate && pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

Try running this and then running archinstall normally.

[blissful elbow]

Try this manually before running archinstall again

timedatectl set-ntp true
systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd
timedatectl status

And test curl https://archlinux.org??

[neat quest]

The restart still doesnt change anything even if i set ntp true before that and curl does give me the code of the website

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I used the iso from this month 2026.05.01

[blissful elbow]

What timedatectl status say??

[neat quest]

Same as it did since the beginning

[blissful elbow]

Run hwclock --systohc and try again.

[neat quest]

No change

[blissful elbow]

Okay, that might be an issue with the Archinstall tool. You could ask in the Archinstall Discord server or just install Arch manually.

[neat quest]

Well if i install it manually id still need to get the clock to syncronise right?

[blissful elbow]

Yeah, but it should work after the installation is done.

[neat quest]

Well i guess ill just try the manual install then

[austere grail]

Isn't there an argument for archinstall that can skip this?

Like --skip wkd or something?

[neat quest]

Yeah i tried that as i said in my original post and then it just got stuck on the keyring sync instead

-skip ntp at least if thats what you ment

[blissful elbow]

You’re not dual-booting, right??

[neat quest]

No

[blissful elbow]

Okay, just do it manually and see if it works.

[austere grail]

Try archinstall --skip-ntp --skip-wkd.

[neat quest]

I tried the manual install but when i went to install the packages with pacstrap it failed with a bunch of error: keyring is not writable

[blissful elbow]

Run pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

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It says public keyring not found

[blissful elbow]

Show the output??

[blissful elbow]

Run

[blissful elbow]

Run the pacstrap .... stuff.

[neat quest]

Now it gave me this

[blissful elbow]

Run pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring again.

[blissful elbow]

Just hit enter.

[blissful elbow]

Run one by one

rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-*.pkg.tar.zst
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinux
pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

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In response to the first command it says rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/': Is a directory

[blissful elbow]

You didn't type the whole thing.

[neat quest]

Oop my bad

Now it tells me no matches found

[blissful elbow]

Check ls -alh /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-*??

[neat quest]

No matches found

[blissful elbow]

Ok, run pacman-key --refresh-keys and try again pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring!!

[neat quest]

Still the same

[blissful elbow]

Okay, it's there run rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring*

[neat quest]

keyring* or keyring-*

[neat quest]

Well neither had matches found

[blissful elbow]

Okay, run rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-* and try again.

[blissful elbow]

Looks good, now try pacstrap ...

[neat quest]

Looks like it worked

Well i hope i can just continue from here without problem

[blissful elbow]

Looks good. After you chroot in run touch /etc/vconsole.conf and after that run mkinitcpio -P

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Im following the installation gude rn. Ive set the timezone and am now in locale.gen with vim but idk what i need exactly i have a german keyboard but id like the language to be english and the time/date/currency formating to be german/european if possible

[blissful elbow]

The system language has nothing to do with the date and time. You just have to configure the timezone.

[neat quest]

No im talking about how they are displayed

I want dd.mm.yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy

I mean that doesnt really have anything to do with the original question anyway i can figure that out myself

[blissful elbow]

Yeah, the display formatting is separate from the system language. You configure the system lang first then do the formating after the system is install.

[neat quest]

I removed the commentation on en and de, ran locale-gen and am now editing the locale.conf can in not just do both right here like LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8

[neat quest]

Or would that cause problems

[blissful elbow]

No.