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Solution 1
I believe this is a problem on the thousands of the systems running Archlinux ARM and using NetworkManger.
In my case /etc/resolv.conf was a broken symlink to ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf.
NetworkManager can't populate the symlink, and the /etc/resolv.conf is empty. We have to:
Remove the broken symlink:
# rm /etc/resolv.conf
Create an /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/dns.conf file with the contents:
[main]
dns=none
main.systemd-resolved=false
Restart NetworkManager:
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
This should fix the issue, if not follow Solution 2.
Solution 2
In case the above didn't fix the issue for you, you can temporarily populate /etc/resolv.conf by:
sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved && sudo systemctl stop systemd-resolved
The reason this works is because probably something is messing up the /etc/resolv.conf file. The above command should overwrite the contents, but again, you should look at what causing the issue.
Solution 3
If you can't get your /etc/resolv.conf back, just create a new /etc/resolv.conf (delete if an empty old one or symbolic link exists) and paste the code:
search domain.name
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1
Note, in the first line, you can also use your router's IP address, for example (nameserver 192.168.43.1 in my case) which will make other systems pingable on the same network. It's not a good idea to generate resolv like this, but I had a bad time with the NetworkManager's auto-generated resolv. Systemd-resolvd also generates wrong ones, even on my PC.
A bit weird, here I am using google's primary dns and cloudflare's primary dns, you can use 8.8.8.8 with 8.8.4.4 or 1.1.1.1 with 1.0.0.1.
Although that step works, but you may want to stop NetworkManager from overwriting the file whenever it restarts:
Add this entry to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
[main]
dns=none
systemd-resolved=false
./justryuz
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