Pacman is shitting a brick!

I don't know what's going on but something is seriously a-bork:
03:02:59 <+delysid|~> sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
gnustep [/var/abs/gnustep.repo/] 100% LOCAL
testing [################] 100% 1K 4.8K/s 00:00:00
current [################] 100% 39K 51.5K/s 00:00:00
extra [################] 100% 136K 223.0K/s 00:00:00
unstable [################] 100% 1K 5.7K/s 00:00:00
error: could not cwd to /tur/bfinch/: 550 /tur/bfinch/: No such file or directory
failed to synchronize bfinch
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize contrasutra
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize deepfreeze
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize dp
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize hapy
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize kritoke
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize roberto
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize staging
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize twm
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize whatah
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize xentac
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize brice
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize tpowa
:: j2re-1.5.0_beta1-1: local version is newer
:: j2sdk-1.5.0_beta1-2: local version is newer
:: mplayer-1.0pre3.2-1: ignoring package upgrade (1.0pre4-1)
:: prelink-20021002-2: local version is newer
:: Above packages will be skipped. To manually upgrade use 'pacman -S <pkg>'
Targets: binutils-2.15-1t1 cvsup-16.1h-2t1 glibc-2.3.3-1t1 initscripts-0.6-9
iputils-021109-1t1 rhythmbox-0.8.3-1 sox-12.17.4-3
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from testing...
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
error: failed to retrieve some files from testing
:: Retrieving packages from current...
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
initscripts-0.6-9 [################] 100% 7K 3.5K/s 00:00:02
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
rhythmbox-0.8.3-1 [################] 100% 1206K 67.4K/s 00:00:17
sox-12.17.4-3 [################] 100% 238K 56.7K/s 00:00:04
After downloading those files it does not install them (presumably because it was unable to download some dependencies).
I haven't seen any other posts about this so perhaps this problem just arose?

tehdely wrote:
dp, I actually went ahead and added that line as I didn't have one. ( I always trash the pacman.conf.pacnew whenever pacman upgrades and keep my old one, so it's gotten a bit stale with the times, heh ).
After I added it, it was able to sync and upgrade with all the main repositories. TURs are still broken, however (perhaps the directory structure on the TUR server has changed?)
Also how do I make wget less verbose, the interface was previously so nice and clean
for wget i dont know anything else than
-q for no output
or
-nv for only basic output

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Hi, i am another guy who fail with upgrade pacman 4.1
I has pacman 4.0.3-7 and for some dependancy (like yaourt), i need pacman 4.1
He wasn't in system update, so i download it from git : git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git pacman
sh ./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-doc
make -j8
sudo make install
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sudo pacman -Syu
error: no usable package repositories configured.
I backup my /etc/pacman.conf and use the new one like this topic : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1254497
I check the version :
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I try to upgrade my DB
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The only solution i found right now is reinstalling arch linux o.0
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mathben wrote:
I has pacman 4.0.3-7 and for some dependancy (like yaourt), i need pacman 4.1
He wasn't in system update, so i download it from git : git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git pacman
sh ./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-doc
make -j8
sudo make install
Why would you do that? Why would you not use pacman to upgrade/install pacman, or any other package for that matter?
Honestly, this was such a bad idea that I'm finding it difficult to keep myself from berating you with inappropriate language (some of which I instinctively blurted out when I read your post).
mathben wrote:
I try to upgrade my DB
sudo /usr/local/bin/pacman-db-upgrade
==> ERROR: /usr/local/var/lib/pacman/ is not a pacman database directory.
pacman-db-upgrade is a transition tool to convert pacman 3.x databases to pacman 4.x databases. Is there some guide that told you to use that to update the database?
I pride myself on trying to be helpful on the forum, but you do not seem to have any idea of how package management works on Arch Linux. This is all covered in the wiki and on the forum. I really do not mean to be rude, but I believe that you would be better off with something else as you seem to just be naively trying random shit.
If you really want to clean up the mess that you've made, uninstall the manually installed pacman, remove whatever AUR apps you have installed that prevent you from upgrading via pacman, then rebuild and re-install those apps after the upgrade.
I also suspect that you are using Archbang or some other distro given that you seem to be new to the distro yet already have yaourt installed. If this is the case then you should direct yourself to their forum. This forum is for Arch Linux.

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I dont have much experience in Java. I have been trying to create a maze for my pacman game. I have displayed the code below.
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import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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                                   {1,0,1,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,0,1},
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                                   {1,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,1},
                                   {1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1},
                                   {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
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                                   {1,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,1},
                                   {1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1},
                                   {1,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,1},
                                   {1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1},
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I tried putting the following statements inside the switch statement (in case 1)
ImageIcon block = new ImageIcon("block.jpeg");
g.drawImage(block, xbound, ybound, this);
but I get this error:
cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method drawImage (javax.swing.ImageIcon,int,int,Maze)
location: class java.awt.Graphics
g.drawImage(block, 0, 0, this);
_^
1 error
Process completed.
can you please tell me what I am doing wrong
thanx

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Hi,
Due to a flaky power brick, my laptop died suddenly amid a large upgrade run (kde-4.10.1 and a few other bits). After reboot, I found that lots of files were present but empty, and that pacman doesn't see them as owned by any package (when I know this is erroneous). I was tipped off to this by ldconfig (when invoked during the subsequent run of pacman -Syu) telling me lots of the KDE libs were empty.
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[NeverMind] Pacman Can't Resolve Domain Names, Yet Internet Works Fine

I've had my Arch box off for over a month due to getting my motherboard replaced. I finally got the board in yesterday and got everything hooked up, then went to go upgrade my system but pacman says that it can't resolve any addresses, yet I can browse the web and ping the repos just fine. What am I missing here?
[bran@ra ~]$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from mirror.us.leaseweb.net : Resolving timed out after 10519 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from mirror.nl.leaseweb.net : Resolving timed out after 10519 milliseconds
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PING mirror.us.leaseweb.net (108.59.10.97) 56(84) bytes of data.
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Well, my pacman had just f***ed up totaly.
I've just tried to do a complete system update after some 3 or 4 months of a single package upgrades. So I've done pacman -Sy and pacman -Su. Then I got an info that a newer version of pacman is available, so I decided to update this first. Afterwards, once again, I've synchronized by databases and tried to do -Su.
It got me the full list of files - good - and after downloading the first file everything crashed saying - broken pipe, as if the file was missing on the server. So I've change the mirror settings and tried once again, but no matter what I've tried to change it had always crached after downloading the first file (no matter what file that was). So I tried to update - from a different server - pacman itself. Now -Su no longer works. Trying to update single file ends with a list of files "existing already in filesystem".
The system works though, but I'm stuck with no way to upgrade. All I can think of right now is to download the last base iso, backup my files and reinstall all the shit - which I don't want to do.
Any ideas of what the heck has gone wrong?
PS. I've forgot to mention that I'm running a 2.9.7-4 pacman package.

Cotton wrote:What happens when you try and (re-)install a local package (eg something in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ using pacman -U pkgname?
Lots of errors of files being already installed, eg.:
glibc: /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab: exists in filesystem
Were there any error messages after pacman -Syu ?
Now I get nothing, just:
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
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[root@thereidos pkg]#
My /var is on the same partition as / so I have 6.8GB left

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Hello,
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mathben wrote:
I has pacman 4.0.3-7 and for some dependancy (like yaourt), i need pacman 4.1
He wasn't in system update, so i download it from git : git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git pacman
sh ./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-doc
make -j8
sudo make install
Why would you do that? Why would you not use pacman to upgrade/install pacman, or any other package for that matter?
Honestly, this was such a bad idea that I'm finding it difficult to keep myself from berating you with inappropriate language (some of which I instinctively blurted out when I read your post).
mathben wrote:
I try to upgrade my DB
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==> ERROR: /usr/local/var/lib/pacman/ is not a pacman database directory.
pacman-db-upgrade is a transition tool to convert pacman 3.x databases to pacman 4.x databases. Is there some guide that told you to use that to update the database?
I pride myself on trying to be helpful on the forum, but you do not seem to have any idea of how package management works on Arch Linux. This is all covered in the wiki and on the forum. I really do not mean to be rude, but I believe that you would be better off with something else as you seem to just be naively trying random shit.
If you really want to clean up the mess that you've made, uninstall the manually installed pacman, remove whatever AUR apps you have installed that prevent you from upgrading via pacman, then rebuild and re-install those apps after the upgrade.
I also suspect that you are using Archbang or some other distro given that you seem to be new to the distro yet already have yaourt installed. If this is the case then you should direct yourself to their forum. This forum is for Arch Linux.

Pacman error... why and how do i fix it?

[root@myhost ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (6): gnupg2-2.0.10-2 grub-gfx-0.97-10 hdparm-9.6-1
qt-4.4.3-4 tdb-3.2.7-1 smbclient-3.2.7-1
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 105.66 MB
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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
grub-gfx: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@myhost ~]#
i have also tried pacman -Syy followed by another pacman -Syu but still nothing
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* LibGTop2: (libgtop2). Library to get system specific data such as
cpu and memory usage, active processes
Network Applications
* GnuTLS: (gnutls). Package for Transport Layer Security.
* certtool: (gnutls)Invoking certtool.
Manipulate certificates and keys.
* gnutls-cli: (gnutls)Invoking gnutls-cli.
GNU TLS test client.
* gnutls-cli-debug: (gnutls)Invoking gnutls-cli-debug.
GNU TLS debug client.
* gnutls-serv: (gnutls)Invoking gnutls-serv.
GNU TLS test server.
* psktool: (gnutls)Invoking psktool.
Simple TLS-Pre-Shared-Keys manager.
* srptool: (gnutls)Invoking srptool.
Simple SRP password tool.
Security
* Heimdal: (heimdal). The Kerberos 5 distribution from KTH
* hx509: (hx509). The X.509 distribution from KTH
System administration
* Which: (which). Show full path of commands.
Texinfo documentation system
* Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
The Algorithmic Language Scheme
* GOOPS: (goops). The GOOPS reference manual.
* Guile Reference: (guile). The Guile reference manual.
* Guile Tutorial: (guile-tut). The Guile tutorial.
* R5RS: (r5rs). The Revised(5) Report on Scheme.
This is libtool.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from /Users/gary/Devo/libtool/doc/libtool.texi.
This is libtool.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from /Users/gary/Devo/libtool/doc/libtool.texi.
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Individual utilities
* aclocal: (automake)Invoking aclocal. Generating aclocal.m4.
* addr2line: (binutils)addr2line. Convert addresses to file and
line.
* ar: (binutils)ar. Create, modify, and extract
from archives.
* autoconf-invocation: (autoconf)autoconf Invocation.
How to create configuration
scripts
* autoheader: (autoconf)autoheader Invocation. How to create configuration
templates
* autom4te: (autoconf)autom4te Invocation. The Autoconf executables
backbone
* automake: (automake)Invoking Automake. Generating Makefile.in.
* autoreconf: (autoconf)autoreconf Invocation. Remaking multiple `configure'
scripts
* autoscan: (autoconf)autoscan Invocation. Semi-automatic `configure.ac'
writing
* autoupdate: (autoconf)autoupdate Invocation. Automatic update of
`configure.ac'
* c++filt: (binutils)c++filt. Filter to demangle encoded C++
symbols.
* cmp: (diff)Invoking cmp. Compare 2 files byte by byte.
* config.status: (autoconf)config.status Invocation.
Recreating configurations.
* configure: (autoconf)configure Invocation. Configuring a package.
* cxxfilt: (binutils)c++filt. MS-DOS name for c++filt.
* diff: (diff)Invoking diff. Compare 2 files line by line.
* diff3: (diff)Invoking diff3. Compare 3 files line by line.
* dlltool: (binutils)dlltool. Create files needed to build
and use DLLs.
* ifnames: (autoconf)ifnames Invocation. Listing conditionals in source.
* libtoolize: (libtool)Invoking libtoolize. Adding libtool support.
* nlmconv: (binutils)nlmconv. Converts object code into an
NLM.
* nm: (binutils)nm. List symbols from object files.
* objcopy: (binutils)objcopy. Copy and translate object
files.
* objdump: (binutils)objdump. Display information from
object files.
* patch: (diff)Invoking patch. Apply a patch to a file.
* ranlib: (binutils)ranlib. Generate index to archive
contents.
* readelf: (binutils)readelf. Display the contents of ELF
format files.
* sdiff: (diff)Invoking sdiff. Merge 2 files side-by-side.
* size: (binutils)size. List section sizes and total
size.
* strings: (binutils)strings. List printable strings from
files.
* strip: (binutils)strip. Discard symbols.
* tar: (tar)tar invocation. Invoking GNU `tar'.
* testsuite: (autoconf)testsuite Invocation. Running an Autotest test suite.
* windmc: (binutils)windmc. Generator for Windows message
resources.
* windres: (binutils)windres. Manipulate Windows resources.
Miscellaneous
* As: (as). The GNU assembler.
* Bfd: (bfd). The Binary File Descriptor library.
* Gas: (as). The GNU assembler.
* Ld: (ld). The GNU linker.
* gprof: (gprof). Profiling your program's execution
Software development
* Autoconf: (autoconf). Create source code configuration scripts.
* Automake: (automake). Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles.
* Binutils: (binutils). The GNU binary utilities.
* Cpp: (cpp). The GNU C preprocessor.
* Cpplib: (cppinternals). Cpplib internals.
* bison: (bison). GNU parser generator (Yacc replacement).
* g++: (gcc). The GNU C++ compiler.
* gcc: (gcc). The GNU Compiler Collection.
* gccinstall: (gccinstall). Installing the GNU Compiler Collection.
* gccint: (gccint). Internals of the GNU Compiler Collection.
* gfortran: (gfortran). The GNU Fortran Compiler.
* treelang: (treelang). The GNU Treelang compiler.
Text creation and manipulation
* M4: (m4). A powerful macro processor.
World Wide WebINFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Emacs Lisp
* URL: (url). URL loading package.
Last edited by tjwoosta (2009-01-14 15:35:51)

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … ement_FAQs

Possible to make pacman less verbose?

Hi,
During updates your sometimes see pacman print a whole list of signed keys that it has been updated, even those that have not changed. Would it be possible to remove this output?
I do like package signing but I prefer not to be bothered with it at all as long as the keys seem to match. I feel it is something that should be handled behind the scenes and not confuse the user. Let's not forget that most UNIX programs only print things to the screen when something has gone wrong.
This was just a friendly suggestion. Thank you for all the hard work

@karol: Ah great. I will write my requests on the bugtracker in the future.
@ngoonee: To explain this "most UNIX programs" thing I wrote. It is a fairly well known philosophy that a program should not print to stdout if everything works as it should. Look at the how rm, cp, mv, mount, ln et.c. works, they don't tell you that what you just did worked, they only print stuff when something doesn't and they do that on stderr. These are the programs I refer to when I talk about "most UNIX programs". I thought this concept was actually well known among Linux enthusiasts.
There are good reasons behind this philosophy. Firstly printing something like writing an OK does not give you any more information compared to giving you nothing at all when you know beforehand a message not seen is a program that works. Imagine cp wrote "I copied file x to y" every time it worked and you have a script that does 50 cps in a row and all of them worked you would end up with a log with 100% useless information. Now this is not exactly true because usually programs print to stdout vs stderr and you could only redirect stderr but there are instances where you need to log non-error messages as well, probably because someone didn't care about sending errors to the correct file descriptor which is not very uncommon.
It doesn't add anything for scripting purposes either. It is much easier to check the exit status and check that it is zero than having to grep for some particular text. Often people in general write to much data to stdout, it is convenient but what they actually are doing is writing what is essentially log/debug messages to stdout. This is not what stdout is for.
I hope this explained it better.
@2ManyDogs: I don't mean pacman should remove ALL output, only the key-related stuff. The comparison was made as a reminder.

Pacman -Qm no longer working correctly [solved]

I can't get pacman -Qm to work right anymore, when I use it, it just displays pretty much every package I have, like so:
$ pacman -Qm
acl 2.2.39-1
alsa-lib 1.0.13-1
alsa-oss 1.0.12-1
alsa-utils 1.0.13-1
apache 2.2.4-2
apr 1.2.8-1
apr-util 1.2.8-2
aspell 0.60.5-1
asunder 0.1.0-2
aterm 1.0.0-2
atk 1.18.0-2
attr 2.4.32-2
audiofile 0.2.6-3
autoconf 2.61-1
automake 1.10-1
bash 3.2-1
bigreqsproto 1.0.2-1
bin86 0.16.17-1
binutils 2.17-2
bison 2.3-2
bzip2 1.0.4-1
cairo 1.4.2-1
cdparanoia 9.8-4
cdrdao 1.2.2-1
cdrkit 1.1.2-1
clisp 2.41-1
cmake 2.4.6-1
codecs 20061022-1
compositeproto 0.3.1-1
coreutils 6.9-1
cpio 2.7-2
cracklib 2.8.10-3
cups 1.2.10-1
curl 7.15.5-1
cvsup 16.1h-3
cyrus-sasl 2.1.22-3
cyrus-sasl-plugins 2.1.22-4
damageproto 1.1.0-1
db 4.5.20-1
dbus 1.0.2-4
dbus-glib 0.73-1
dcron 3.2-1
desktop-file-utils 0.12-1
dhcpcd 1.3.22pl4-4
dialog 1.0_20060221-1
diffutils 2.8.1-2
divx4linux 6.1.1-1
dmxproto 2.2.2-1
docbook-xml 4.1.2-2
docbook-xsl 1.71.1-2
doom3 1.3.1302-4
dosfstools 2.11-1
e2fsprogs 1.39-2
ed 0.4-1
enchant 1.3.0-1
esd 0.2.37-2
expat 2.0.0-1
faad2 2.5-2
fakeroot 1.5.10-1
fam 2.7.0-9
fbset 2.1-1
file 4.20-1
filesystem 0.8-1
findutils 4.2.30-1
fixesproto 4.0-2
flac 1.1.4-1
flex 2.5.33-1
fontcacheproto 0.1.2-1
fontconfig 2.4.2-1
fontsproto 2.0.2-1
freetype1 1.3.1-3
freetype2 2.3.1-1
fribidi 0.10.7-1
gawk 3.1.5-3
gc 6.8-1
gcc 4.1.2-3
gd 2.0.34-1
gdb 6.6-1
gdbm 1.8.3-3
gen-init-cpio 2.6.17-1
gettext 0.16.1-1
gftp 2.0.18-2
ghostscript 8.15.4-1
gimp 2.2.13-3
glib 1.2.10-6
glib2 2.12.11-1
glibc 2.5-6
glproto 1.4.8-1
gmp 4.2.1-1
gnome-icon-theme 2.18.0-1
gnutls 1.6.1-1
gpm 1.20.1-6
gpodder 0.8.0-1
grep 2.5.1a-2
groff 1.19.2-1
grub 0.97-7
gsfonts 8.11-4
gtk 1.2.10-7
gtk-engines 2.10.0-1
gtk2 2.10.11-2
gtkspell 2.0.11-2
gutenprint 5.0.0-2
gvim 7.0.219-1
gzip 1.3.9-1
heimdal 0.7.2-6
hicolor-icon-theme 0.10-1
icon-naming-utils 0.8.2-1
imagemagick 6.3.2.8-1
imlib2 1.2.2-1
initscripts 0.8-6
inputproto 1.4-1
intltool 0.35.5-1
iptables 1.3.7-2
iputils 021109-5
kbd 1.12-6
kbproto 1.0.3-1
kernel-headers 2.6.20-1
kernel26 2.6.20.4-1
kernel26emission 2.6.17.emission8-1
klibc 1.5-1
klibc-extras 2.2-2
klibc-udev 107-2
lame 3.97-1
latexmk 307a-1
lcms 1.16-1
less 394-1
lesstif 0.95.0-2
libao 0.8.6-2
libarchive 1.3.1-2
libart-lgpl 2.3.19-1
libcap 1.10-2
libcroco 0.6.1-1
libcups 1.2.10-1
libdmx 1.0.2-1
libdownload 1.1-1
libdrm 2.3.0-1
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libevent 1.1a-2
libexif 0.6.13-1
libfontenc 1.0.3-1
libgcrypt 1.2.4-1
libglade 2.6.0-1
libgnomecanvas 2.14.0-1
libgnomecups 0.2.2-4
libgnomeprint 2.18.0-1
libgnomeprintui 2.18.0-1
libgpg-error 1.5-1
libgsf 1.14.3-2
libice 1.0.2-1
libid3tag 0.15.1b-2
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libjpeg 6b-4
liblbxutil 1.0.1-1
libldap 2.3.33-3
libmad 0.15.1b-2
libmng 1.0.9-1
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libogg 1.1.3-1
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libsndfile 1.0.17-1
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libxcb 1.0-2
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libxcursor 1.1.8-1
libxdamage 1.1-1
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libxext 1.0.3-1
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libxfontcache 1.0.3-1
libxft 2.1.11-2
libxi 1.1.0-1
libxinerama 1.0.0-1
libxkbfile 1.0.4-1
libxkbui 1.0.2-1
libxml2 2.6.27-2
libxmu 1.0.3-1
libxp 1.0.0-1
libxpm 3.5.6-1
libxrandr 1.2.1-1
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libxslt 1.1.20-2
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licenses 1.0.1-1
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man 1.6e-1
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patch 2.5.4-2
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portmap 5beta-9
postgresql-libs 8.2.3-1
printproto 1.0.3-1
procinfo 18-3
procps 3.2.7-1
psmisc 22.3-1
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pygobject 2.12.3-2
pygtk 2.10.4-1
python 2.5-4
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randrproto 1.2.1-1
rapidsvn 0.9.4-1
rb_libtorrent 0.11-1
readline 5.2-1
recordproto 1.13.2-1
reiserfsprogs 3.6.20-1
renderproto 0.9.2-1
ruby 1.8.5_p12-2
scrnsaverproto 1.1.0-1
scrollkeeper 0.3.14-5
sdl 1.2.11-1
sed 4.1.5-1
shadow 4.0.18.1-3
slocate 3.1-2
smbclient 3.0.24-2
soundmixer 0.1-1
startup-notification 0.9-1
sudo 1.6.8-10
swiftfox-amd 2.0.0.3-1
sysfsutils 2.1.0-1
syslog-ng 2.0.0-2
sysvinit 2.86-2
tar 1.16.1-1
tcl 8.4.14-1
tcp_wrappers 7.6-6
tk 8.4.14-1
transmission-svn 1516-1
trapproto 3.4.3-1
trash 0.2-1
ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-5
udev 107-3
unrar 3.7.3-1
unzip 5.52-2
usbutils 0.72-1
util-linux 2.12-10
videoproto 2.2.2-1
vim 7.0.219-1
vorbis-tools 1.1.1-3
weatherget 0.2-2
wget 1.10.2-2
which 2.16-1
wmctrl 1.07-1
xcb-proto 1.0-1
xcursor-themes 1.0.1-1
xdg-utils 1.0.1-1
xextproto 7.0.2-1
xf86-input-keyboard 1.1.0-1
xf86-input-mouse 1.1.1-1
xf86-video-vesa 1.2.1-2
xf86dgaproto 2.0.2-1
xf86miscproto 0.9.2-1
xf86vidmodeproto 2.2.2-1
xine-lib 1.1.4-2
xineramaproto 1.1.2-1
xkeyboard-config 0.9-1
xorg 11R7.0-1
xorg-font-utils 1.0.3-1
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-1
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.2-1
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-3
xorg-server 1.2.0-3
xorg-server-utils 1.0.3-2
xorg-utils 1.0.2-1
xorg-xauth 1.0.1-1
xorg-xinit 1.0.3-1
xorg-xkb-utils 1.0.2-1
xorg-xsm 1.0.1-2
xproto 7.0.9-2
xterm 223-1
xvidcore 1.1.2-1
zip 2.32-1
zlib 1.2.3-1
I know for a fact that all of these packages aren't foreign. Any Ideas why this is acting like this?
Edit: I suppose I should mention that It worked fine last week. I can't remember if I've used it since I upgraded to pacman 3 from testing, but I have used it with pacman 3 ( I was using the rc before it went to testing).
Last edited by barebones (2007-04-03 18:43:51)

For future reference, I got this fixed. I was looking around in /var/lib/pacman and I realized that the current folder was empty. Why this happened I do not know. I used pacman to reinstall a package from current (I used bash) and when it was installed, the current directory was regenerated.

[SOLVED] After pacman update, system no longer boots

Updated pacman packages, and half-way through the upgrade proces fails (it mentions not being able to find package-control). Upon investigating, I notice no programs are working. I ls /usr/bin and it is empty! In a panic, I restart the machine, and it no longer boots up.
My boot is on sda3 and /root is sda5.
When bash starts up, it loads the kernel fine, and then after a second it panics and exclaims: "No init found. Try passing init=bootarg".
I load up my trusty Arch livecd and fsck the partitions. Fsck claims both partitions are clean. I am able to mount them and examine the file structure: all files look like they are there. I then try to chroot the mounted partition (sda5, my /root), and get the error that "/bin/bash" is not found, even though it is there in the correct directory. Not sure what to do now.
My grub entry, which has always worked fine prior to this:
legacy_kernel '/linux344-ck' 'acpi_osi=Linux' 'root=/dev/sda5' 'rootfstype=ext4' 'init=/sbin/init' 'pcie_aspm=force' 'acpi_backlight=vendor' 'i915.i915_enable_rc6=1' 'i915.i915_enable_fbc=1' 'i915.lvds_downclock=1' 'ipv6.disable=1' 'i915.semaphores=1' 'modprobe.blacklist=bluetooth,uvcvideo' 'ro'
legacy_initrd '/initramfs-linux-fallback.img' '/initramfs-linux-fallback.img'
UPDATE: solved issue. I didn't read the news. Upgrading via pacman broke my system because of this. Now I know! System is running smooth again.
Last edited by corruptz0r (2012-07-15 20:26:53)

Huh. I guess the problem was a couple of stale and crusty {,f}getty .service files, and an obsolete slim.service file I created a while back.
Removing them fixed my problem, although tty1 still shows boot messages (not a problem, and may not even be "new" behaviour)
Cheers Tomegun.

Will Apple cover me if updating to iOS5 on ipod Touch 3rd gen ruins/bricks it?

I have heard stories of some people's apple products not working/bricked after attempting to upgrade to iOS5.
I have a 1.5 year old ipod Touch 3rd gen. No warranty on it from Apple (tho I do have one from Square Trade for ADH, but I called them and they said if it is a software issue, they don't cover it.)
I am very concerned about d/ling the ios5 upgrade and it ruining my ipod touch. In effect, I will take a device that could fetch almost $200 on ebay (which I could then use to upgrade to a Touch 5gen), and turn it into a worthless piece of junk if I upgrade and it ruins it.
Also, I know that they have released 5.0.1 (beta I believe?) for update. I still read stories on here from people waiting until now (Nov, a month after it was first released when so many people tried to d/l it and had terrible problems), but now are still getting network timed out error msgs, etc.
So is there ANY protection from Apple if their update should screw my ipod touch??
Should I just wait longer for a final, stable version of ios 5? (like v5.1) Or just totally skip the iOS 5 upgrade and stay safe with iOS 4? I don't know that it is really worth the $200 loss risk to upgrade to iOS5. (i.e. 3rd gen doesn't have the ability to find and lock/wipe my lost touch, etc.)
I do know that I should:
1) install itunes 10.5 anew on my laptop (itunes and syncing WAS done on my tower, until I just got it back from being serviced for some Major problems/virues/malware/etc. I'm not comfortable using it, as the problems on it included not being able to start Local Services, connect to the internet, no audio services, etc. The guy says it is booting up and services are working now, but you never know....But i digress...)
2) be on AC and not battery on my laptop
3) be hardwired (ethernet) to the internet and not use my wireless connection
4) turn off Windows 7 Firewall, and disable my PC Tools Spyware Docter with Antivirus.
So, what do you all think? should I wait until later to upgrade to say os 5.1? Should I even RISK upgrading to iOS5 on a touch 3gen and lose almost $200 cash? And will Apple give me ANY protection should it ruin my touch? (I seriously doubt it.)
Thanks for input.
Dave
Kentucky

Before proceeding with the update, it wouldn't hurt to manually back up the iPod in iTunes by right->clicking on it from under the Devices section and choosing Backup. See this article for more information on what is stored in the backup.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
Also make sure that any content you may have synced to the device from iTunes, such as Music, movies, TV Shows, podcasts, etc. are all stored on your computer and in iTunes before updating the iPod's version of iOS.
Otherwise, I would go ahead with the upgrade. I didn't have any issues with it on my iPhone.
B-rock

How to pacman -Sy by hand, or against only a single repo? [SOLVED]

I've written a wrapper for makepkg that builds my packages and adds them to my local custom repo. If I give the wrapper a -i flag, I want to then install them from the repo. I suppose I could just use pacman -U, but I prefer to use yaourt -S local_repo/package_name=desired_version. To do this, though, I have to synch my pacman lib db against the newly updated local_repo. Currently I'm just doing a pacman -Sy to do that. Downside is that hits all the other repos too. Often I find myself building and rebuilding and reinstalling a package multiple times as I tweak the PKGBUILD. Repeatedly synching against all the repos is bad for me (few extra seconds every cycle) and bad for the repos.
What I need is a way to synch against only my local_repo. I can't figure out how to do that using any pacman cmd-line switch. The format of the repo file looks very simple, so I tried doing this manually:
sudo tar -xzf /path/to/local_repo/local_repo.db.tar.gz -C /var/lib/pacman/sync/local_repo
stat --printf "%X" /path/to/local_repo/local_repo.db.tar.gz | sudo tee /var/lib/pacman/sync/local_repo/.lastupdate > /dev/null
But pacman still seems not to notice the changes. E.g. if I do pacman -Si local_repo/new_package, I get a report of the previous package version, not the newly added one.
Is there any way to synch just my local repo, either using pacman or by hand?
Last edited by Profjim (2009-07-31 21:14:34)

You're right, that works. As happens too often, I was making things more difficult than they needed to be...
EDIT: it works sometimes, and sometimes doesn't. I still can't figure out what determines the difference...
If you untar on top of a directory, any existing directories (at least at the top level) that don't exist in the archive will be left there, not removed. But this is fine for my purposes. I can wait until the next full pacman sync to delete them.
And the problem of I-dont-wanna-untar-the-old-stuff-too can be solved by doing:
sudo tar -xzvf "$PKGDEST/$REPONAME.db.tar.gz" --after-date="@$(cat /var/lib/pacman/sync/$REPONAME/.lastupdate)" -C /var/lib/pacman/sync/$REPONAME
That is, we use the sync dir's existing .lastupdate file to give us a date (in Unix epoch format, which tar needs to see as "@12234556"), and we tell tar just to extract the files modified after that date. I can tell from the -v output that this is working properly.
But it's still a mystery why sometimes this works and sometimes doesn't...
# ...add new package version to local_repo, then...
sudo repo-add path/to/local_repo.db.tar.gz path/to/new/package
# untar local_repo.db.tar.gz on top of /var/lib/pacman/sync/local_repo, as above, then...
sudo pacman -S local_repo/new_package=new_version
Last edited by Profjim (2009-07-31 21:00:56)

Problems with pacman applet, and advice on a gaming portfolio

Hi
I recently made a pacman applet, im having a few problems with it though, the first time the applet is run on a browser, the ghosts(represented by squares) often dont appear or if they do, they are stuck in walls, this never happens when i run offline on my computer. Is this because the very first time the applet is run, it doesnt load properly, but the second time some of the files are in the cache so it loads fully?
Also everytime i refresh the browser the applet dissapears and is replaced with a blank space and a cross in the top left hand corner, does anyone know the reason for this?
The applet can be found below, if you do decide to play it, please bear in mind what i have said, so it might not load correctly the first time, if this is the case please refresh, or close the broswer and reopen the link! Also you will need to click the applet for it to gain focus before you can move pacman - use the arrow keys the control pacman.
http://www.renaissance-designs.co.uk/Satwant/java/pacman/
Id also be very gratful for some advice - id like a change in career, ive always wanted to get into gaming, ive had some previous knowledge in java i made a programme that could generate its own poetry in java for my dissatation, but i still never had a huge amount of confidence, and so went into websites.
BUT now i have decided to take the leap back into programming and give it a go, which is why ive made this game.
I thought id make a portfolio and try and apply for a few gaming jobs. This applet took me two weeks to make and it was in my spare time, i am fully aware its not perfect, and it doesnt look great, but i would like to know what people think of it, also how many more games do you think i should make, before i apply for gaming jobs? Does anyone have any advice on what would make a good portfolio for a java gaming job?
Thanks alot, i look forward to what you think of the game, and your advice!
SSKenth

sskenth wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me with that information, i didnt know you could see that information with just a simple right click!
But im afraid that doesnt really help me solve the problem, im not sure what all of that information means! :SI have very little experience with applets, but I can tell you what I would do to debug this (forgive me if you already know this stuff).
Look at the stack trace you get in the Java Console that I posted earlier. Each line contains a method that was called from the method on the previous line. So, java.lang.Thread.run() called sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(), which called Room.init(), etc. Look at the topmost line whose method is something you wrote, not something in the standard Java libraries. In your case it looks like PaintSurface.java (specifically, line 22). Look at what line 22 of PaintSurface.java is doing, it's calling Thread.start(). If you check out the Javadoc for Thread.start(), it says IllegalThreadStateException gets thrown if you call start() on a thread that has already started. So that's your problem. Without looking at your code, I'd assume you want to stop your thread in your applet's destroy() override, and instead of reusing it, create a new one each time init() is called.
Ill try and look into, thanks again though, it gives me somthing to work with :D
Btw when you first ran the applet, did all the ghosts(3) load up correctly?Unfortunately, no. The first time I ran it, there was only 1 ghost (or maybe all 3 overlapping each other?) at the top of the screen, and they never moved. Refreshing once made the game play as I think you want it to. Refreshing a third time gave the dreaded red X.
...oh and just out of curiosity,,, did u have fun playing the game :DSure did.

Iphone 6 touch ID did not working , then restored and it bricked

I'm very depressed now. My iphone 6 is not working. Touch ID didn't work so I restored and updated to 8.1.3 and it stuck at 50% and showed the error 53 then bricked . I bought it in New Zealand and I'm working in another country. What should I do now ?

Hey David,
The troubleshooting suggestions in this article will resolve most issues like the one that you’ve described, where you saw the alert message when attempting to restore your iPhone 6.
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Cheers,
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