Pacman stalled (solved)

My pacman stalled mid installation, it's been showing this for the last 20 minutes with no progress - what is the safest course of action?  Thanks
EDIT: got bored waiting, restarted and issued the pacman command again.  All was well
# pacman -S cups ghostscript hplip cups-pdf
:: ghostscript-8.15.4-3: local version is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] n
warning: ghostscript-8.15.4-3 is up to date -- skipping
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: cups-1.2.12-1 foomatic-filters-3.0_20070628-1
foomatic-db-engine-3.0_20070628-2 hplip-1.7.4a-3 cups-pdf-2.4.6-1
Total Package Size: 12.74 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
cups 2.8M 226.9K/s 00:00:13 [#####################] 100%
foomatic-filters 60.7K 86.1K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
foomatic-db-engine 80.0K 99.6K/s 00:00:00 [##########-----------] 49%
Last edited by r76 (2007-09-23 15:03:24)

My pacman stalled mid installation, it's been showing this for the last 20 minutes with no progress - what is the safest course of action?  Thanks
EDIT: got bored waiting, restarted and issued the pacman command again.  All was well
# pacman -S cups ghostscript hplip cups-pdf
:: ghostscript-8.15.4-3: local version is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] n
warning: ghostscript-8.15.4-3 is up to date -- skipping
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: cups-1.2.12-1 foomatic-filters-3.0_20070628-1
foomatic-db-engine-3.0_20070628-2 hplip-1.7.4a-3 cups-pdf-2.4.6-1
Total Package Size: 12.74 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
cups 2.8M 226.9K/s 00:00:13 [#####################] 100%
foomatic-filters 60.7K 86.1K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
foomatic-db-engine 80.0K 99.6K/s 00:00:00 [##########-----------] 49%
Last edited by r76 (2007-09-23 15:03:24)

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    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/page_64.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/param.h exists in filesystem
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    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/posix_types_64.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/prctl.h exists in filesystem
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    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/user_64.h exists in filesystem
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    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/vic.h exists in filesystem
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    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/vmi.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/vmi_time.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/voyager.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/vsyscall.h exists in filesystemI
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xen/interface.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor_32.h exists in filesystem
    klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/xor_64.h exists in filesystem
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    look
    error: cannot connect to archlinux.antesis.org
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    /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e49ab0]
    /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb7e4b0f4]
    pacman[0x80604ee]
    pacman[0x805b731]
    pacman[0x805bdeb]
    pacman[0x80523c6]
    pacman[0x8055335]
    /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8)[0xb7dfc808]
    pacman[0x804a0a1]
    ======= Memory map: ========
    08048000-0806b000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 10751589   /usr/bin/pacman
    0806b000-0806c000 rw-p 00023000 03:43 10751589   /usr/bin/pacman
    0806c000-08606000 rw-p 0806c000 00:00 0          [heap]
    b7c00000-b7c21000 rw-p b7c00000 00:00 0
    b7c21000-b7d00000 ---p b7c21000 00:00 0
    b7dbe000-b7dcc000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 4046864    /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
    b7dcc000-b7dce000 rw-p 0000d000 03:43 4046864    /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
    b7dce000-b7dd0000 rw-p b7dce000 00:00 0
    b7dd2000-b7ddc000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 10750835   /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
    b7ddc000-b7ddd000 rw-p 00009000 03:43 10750835   /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
    b7ddd000-b7de7000 rw-p b7ddd000 00:00 0
    b7de7000-b7efe000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 4046878    /lib/libc-2.4.so
    b7efe000-b7f00000 r--p 00116000 03:43 4046878    /lib/libc-2.4.so
    b7f00000-b7f02000 rw-p 00118000 03:43 4046878    /lib/libc-2.4.so
    b7f02000-b7f05000 rw-p b7f02000 00:00 0
    b7f05000-b7f16000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 10751141   /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
    b7f16000-b7f17000 rw-p 00011000 03:43 10751141   /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
    b7f17000-b7f18000 rw-p b7f17000 00:00 0
    b7f1c000-b7f20000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 4046855    /lib/libnss_dns-2.4.so
    b7f20000-b7f22000 rw-p 00003000 03:43 4046855    /lib/libnss_dns-2.4.so
    b7f22000-b7f2a000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 4046870    /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
    b7f2a000-b7f2c000 rw-p 00007000 03:43 4046870    /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
    b7f2c000-b7f2e000 rw-p b7f2c000 00:00 0
    b7f2e000-b7f48000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 4046893    /lib/ld-2.4.so
    b7f48000-b7f49000 r--p 00019000 03:43 4046893    /lib/ld-2.4.so
    b7f49000-b7f4a000 rw-p 0001a000 03:43 4046893    /lib/ld-2.4.so
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    /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e49ab0]
    /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb7e4b0f4]
    pacman[0x80604ee]
    pacman[0x805b731]
    pacman[0x805bdeb]
    pacman[0x80523c6]
    pacman[0x8055335]
    /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8)[0xb7dfc808]
    pacman[0x804a0a1]
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    08048000-0806b000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 10751589   /usr/bin/pacman
    0806b000-0806c000 rw-p 00023000 03:43 10751589   /usr/bin/pacman
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    b7dbe000-b7dcc000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 4046864    /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
    b7dcc000-b7dce000 rw-p 0000d000 03:43 4046864    /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
    b7dce000-b7dd0000 rw-p b7dce000 00:00 0
    b7dd2000-b7ddc000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 10750835   /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
    b7ddc000-b7ddd000 rw-p 00009000 03:43 10750835   /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
    b7ddd000-b7de7000 rw-p b7ddd000 00:00 0
    b7de7000-b7efe000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 4046878    /lib/libc-2.4.so
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