[Solved] I've broken pacman

I had a failure a couple of days ago during a pacman -Syu run. Since then, any attempt to run pacman -Syu results in messages that all package databases are up to date and there is nothing to do.
I know that isn't correct - there are several updates to packages I have instaled. I've had a look through the pacman man page and done a bit of hunting through the forum, but so far, I've no clue how to fix the problem. Can anyone tell me what I might do to fix pacman so it updates again?
I tried moving the local copies of the databases and then ran pacman -Syu again. That resulted in a download of each of the databases, but I still get the message that there is nothing to do, so it looks as though pacman has lost track of what it installed.
Paul.
Last edited by toothandnail (2012-12-04 00:18:48)

Thanks for the replies....
I've not touched the mirror list, will have to see if I can grab an updated one and try that. Running pacman syy reloads the database lists, but still doesn't find anything new.
Looking back through the log, the last real update was just before I installed acroread from AUR. Unfortunately I need it to complete my tax return, which has to be done soon. As a result, I have multilib enabled.
Running pacman -Q produces a long list of packages, but running pacman -Syu still does this:
[root@sirius fang]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: seamonkey: local (2.14.1-1) is newer than community (2.14-1)
there is nothing to do
I built the latest seamonkey last night, which explains the warning, but so far as I can see, there should be a number of updated files to install.
Paul.

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:: Synchronizing package databases...
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extra is up to date
community is up to date
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Have you tried running pacman -Syy?

[SOLVED]Broken pacman

Hi guys,
after a fresh installation when i'm following post installation i got an error. I suspect is caused by yaourt repo. Because last time i haven't problems when i hadn't used.
Now i have an error of "libarchive" and etc. Any command and action report an error.
So reading the wiki i read how fix pacman and with wget i took the packages:
openssl, libarchive, pacman
Used: wget http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/ … l/download
wget http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/ … e/download
wget http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/ … n/download
I read (don't remember where) that when i use wget, it download in the folder where i am.
I used it, after logging so i'm in the / right?
After i did (assumed that wget download right in the root / :
tar -xvzf openssl
Got an error.
So i used the search in the forum and found another user that had my same problem.
An user advice him to use this (for installing pacman):
tar -xvpf pacman -C --exclude .PKGINFO --exclude .INSTALL
Got same error.
At this time i'm yet without pacman and i'm stuck to finish post installation and install xorg and video drivers u.u
Hope that someone can help me and i excuse if this question is yet answered many times but i had searched for an hour without big help.
Sorry also for my bad english.
Thanks, Gabriele.
edit: i noted that the file that download (in case of openssl) have this name: openssl-1.0.1.a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar
So i have tried: tar -xvzf openssl-1.0.1.a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar
Same error
Last edited by Lilith (2012-04-25 15:08:59)

Because yesterday i broke my pacman.
Now any tip i write with pacman before report to me:
error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So i'm go to the wiki and found that article that you posted. Yes i'm trying. I had understood how to extract the packages (from wiki: tar -Jxvf package.tar.xz) (i haven't seen before, my fault). No i don't know, i'm setting the pacman key and later is began to be crazy. I'm pretty noob i know.
My name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_An … ion#Lilith
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T3A16Lmsu_k/T … mage_0.jpg

I think I may have broken Pacman [SOLVED]

I'm not sure what I did to cause this, but when I started my computer up yesterday, pacman's given me this message whenever I try to update or install anything.
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 106.3 KiB 246K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
extra 1183.5 KiB 352K/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
community 1035.8 KiB 446K/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
multilib is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
catalyst 5.0 KiB 30.0K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
and it goes on and on, listing every repo multiple times.
Here's the last few days' worth of log entries in /var/log/pacman.log. I can't find anything that would indicate any sort of problem.
[2012-01-20 00:53] Running 'pacman -S tightvnc'
[2012-01-20 00:53] installed printproto (1.0.5-1)
[2012-01-20 00:53] installed libxp (1.0.1-2)
[2012-01-20 00:53] installed tightvnc (1.3.10-5)
[2012-01-20 01:11] Running 'pacman -S movieplayer'
[2012-01-20 01:11] Running 'pacman -S totem'
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed gmime (2.6.4-1)
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed totem-plparser (2.32.6-3)
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed cogl (1.8.2-1)
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed clutter (1.8.2-2)
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed clutter-gst (1.4.6-1)
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed clutter-gtk (1.0.4-1)
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed mx (1.4.1-1)
[2012-01-20 01:11] installed totem (3.2.1-1)
[2012-01-20 01:14] Running 'pacman -S lmpeg2'
[2012-01-20 01:14] Running 'pacman -S lmpg2'
[2012-01-20 01:14] Running 'pacman -S libmpeg2'
[2012-01-20 01:14] installed libmpeg2 (0.5.1-3)
[2012-01-20 01:14] Running 'pacman -S mpeg2dec'
[2012-01-20 01:15] Running 'pacman -S sdl libxv'
[2012-01-20 03:15] Running 'pacman -S truecrypt'
[2012-01-20 03:15] installed truecrypt (7.1-1)
[2012-01-20 13:53] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-01-20 13:53] synchronizing package lists
[2012-01-20 13:53] starting full system upgrade
[2012-01-20 13:55] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-01-20 13:55] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Starting build: 3.2.1-1-ARCH
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2012-01-20 13:55] WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
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[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-01-20 13:55] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-01-20 13:55] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded linux (3.1.9-2 -> 3.2.1-1)
[2012-01-20 13:55] ----------------------------------------------------------------
[2012-01-20 13:55] For more info and more troubleshooting visit:
[2012-01-20 13:55] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst
[2012-01-20 13:55] ----------------------------------------------------------------
[2012-01-20 13:55]
[2012-01-20 13:55] --------------------------- == * == ----------------------------
[2012-01-20 13:55] catalyst package has been splited between:
[2012-01-20 13:55] - catalyst (module for stock kernel)
[2012-01-20 13:55] - catalyst-utils (libs and stuff)
[2012-01-20 13:55]
[2012-01-20 13:55] and optional:
[2012-01-20 13:55] - catalyst-hook (auto rebuilding script and source files)
[2012-01-20 13:55] - catalyst-daemon (auto rebuilding script and source files)
[2012-01-20 13:55] - catalyst-generator (generator of catalyst-{kernver} packages)
[2012-01-20 13:55] ----------------------------------------------------------------
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded catalyst (11.12-1 -> 11.12-2)
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded lib32-glibc (2.15-3 -> 2.15-3.1)
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded lib32-gcc-libs (4.6.2-5 -> 4.6.2-5.1)
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded perl (5.14.2-6 -> 5.14.2-7)
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded openssl (1.0.0.f-1 -> 1.0.0.g-1)
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded wine (1.3.37-1 -> 1.3.37-1.1)
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded xkeyboard-config (2.4.1-2 -> 2.4.1-3)
[2012-01-20 13:55] upgraded yaourt (1.0-1 -> 1.0.1-1)
[2012-01-25 01:43] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-01-25 01:43] synchronizing package lists
[2012-01-25 01:43] starting full system upgrade
[2012-01-25 01:44] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-01-25 01:44] synchronizing package lists
[2012-01-25 01:44] starting full system upgrade
[2012-01-25 09:48] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-01-25 09:48] synchronizing package lists
[2012-01-25 09:48] starting full system upgrade
[2012-01-25 09:48] Running 'pacman -S netbeans'
[2012-01-25 09:49] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-01-25 09:49] synchronizing package lists
[2012-01-25 09:49] starting full system upgrade
[2012-01-25 09:49] Running 'pacman -S netbeans'
[2012-01-25 15:31] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-01-25 15:31] synchronizing package lists
[2012-01-25 15:31] starting full system upgrade
[2012-01-26 12:23] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-01-26 12:23] synchronizing package lists
[2012-01-26 12:23] starting full system upgrade
The one thing I can think of is that before I shut down the night before this problem occurred, it was telling me there was some conflict, and it wanted to remove a package. I believe I told it not to remove it, because I wanted to do a complete backup before removing a package I didn't know anything about. I believe it had the word "mod" or "mode" in it, not sure, it definitely started with an "m" though.
Last edited by Sotanaht (2012-03-31 20:40:28)

I just noticed something new. At the end of the long error message when I try running sudo pacman -Syu, I got this
:: Replace lib32-libgl with catalyst/lib32-catalyst-utils? [Y/n]
:: Replace module-init-tools with core/kmod? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: kmod and module-init-tools are in conflict. Remove module-init-tools? [y/N]
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: kmod and module-init-tools are in conflict
I'm pretty sure it didn't do that yesterday. However, I'm 90% certain that module-init-tools was the package it wanted me to remove. It didn't give me these errors before I shut down 2 nights ago though
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db: Unrecognized archive format
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[SOLVED] GRUB crashed after pacman -Su

Hello all,
I did a system update about 2 hours ago, I did pacman -Syy and pacman -Su. Every thing looked normal.
Restarted and system crashes right in GRB, it doesn't even shows the menu or error message, it just fills the screen with "GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB".
I checked the disk, partition tables are ok, and the whol HD looks ok, no errors at all (checked with system rescue cd, a gentoo live cd).
I also mounted the boot partition, all files seem to be ok, grub menu, etc..
/grub/menu.lst was modified today, but looks ok.
Any Idea of what could happen?
How to solve it?
Should I try to replace grub?
Last edited by iopo (2011-04-28 11:31:34)

Thank you hcjl and demian.
Problem solved after GRUB re-install.
Here is the procedure (resume from hcjl links) I made, just in case someone else needs it:
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2- Run the cd, login as root
3- Mount arch and boot partitions:
-Find boot and arch partitions with
fdisk -l
Create a directory where you would like to mount the arch partition, then mount it:
mkdir /mnt/arch
mount /dev/<device-or-partition-name> /mnt/arch
4- Changing Root:
cd /mnt/arch
mount -t proc proc proc/
mount -t sysfs sys sys/
mount -o bind /dev dev/
Mount the boot partition:
mount /dev/<device-or-partition-name> boot/
And change root:
chroot . /bin/bash
5- Install GRUB on hd0 (first hard drive):
# grub
grub> setup (hd0)
6- Exit all, reboot
That fixed my problem, and preserved my original GRUB menu (I did a backup of broken GRUB, but it was nor necesary)
Thank you all for your help.
Last edited by iopo (2011-04-28 21:16:47)

[solved] yaourt messed up pacman - "pacman: command not found"

Hi,
i got some "xxxxxx not found on AUR" messages after doing a "yaourt -Syu --aur" so I began to remove them with "yaourt -Rs xxxxxxx".
When there was only one left "aqpm2" this is what happened:
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verificando dependências...
Remover (2): aqpm2-20100615-2 qjson-0.7.1-2
Tamanho total dos pacotes a serem removidos: 2,93 MB
Deseja remover estes pacotes? [S/n] s
(1/2) removendo aqpm2 [##########################################################################] 100%
(2/2) removendo qjson [##########################################################################] 100%
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/usr/lib/yaourt/basicfunctions.sh: line 10: pacman: comando não encontrado
/usr/bin/yaourt: line 201: testdb: comando não encontrado
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bash: pacman: comando não encontrado
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You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo
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Senha:
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capoeira wrote:
can I use pacman-static from this repro?
I'm afraid to break system even more
http://repo.archmobile.org/x86_64/archmobile/
OK, that gave me a segfault, so
I downloaded the package and copied the folders to root.
no pacman works but gaves me this errors afterwards:
pacman-3.4.1-1: description file is missing
pacman-3.4.1-1: dependency file is missing
pacman-3.4.1-1: file list is missing
how do I solve this?
BTW: should I make a bug-report??
EDIT: any package I try to instal I get this error:
erro: não foi possível abrir o arquivo /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-3.4.1-1/depends: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado
(it's in portuguese but i think its understandable)
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[Solved] System completely broken after update

Today while updating my system as usual something went south terribly fast
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[2009-07-09 12:14] synchronizing package lists
[2009-07-09 12:14] starting full system upgrade
[2009-07-09 12:18] upgraded kernel-headers (2.6.29.3-1 -> 2.6.30.1-1)
[2009-07-09 12:18] upgraded glibc (2.10.1-2 -> 2.10.1-3)
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[2009-07-09 12:18] upgraded mercurial (1.3-2 -> 1.3-3)
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After this the system became unresponsive and I could not even switch to to any consoles and I had to turn the pc off by force.
Trying to reboot is not an option as it will stop with a kernel panic with the error just before saying:
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The file is there, I have confirmed it with an install image, I have tried (pacman -r) to try to reinstall some of the packages but it didn't work. I have also tried (pacman -r -Sy base) and that fails too with the scriptlet error.
This goes beyond what I can fix myself, any help solving this will be greatly appreciated.
Edit:
Fixed typos.
I have also tried to chroot into the partition but it doesn't work complaining it can't find /bin/bash (which is there also).
Meanwhile I have also tried to remove all base packages and reinstall them but it doesn't work too, the same scriptlet error, a clean install on another disk does work fine but I would like to avoid reinstalling everything again.
Edit 2:
Solved by reinstalling, couldn't afford to wait too long before finding a solution.
Last edited by R00KIE (2009-07-10 08:35:26)

Can't you installing anything ? it hears very badly
pacman -Qo /sbin/init
/sbin/init is owned by sysvinit-mod 2.86-2
If any better idea, than install a working toolchain with manually, copy the binary of them to the desired /bin /sbin, etc.. library.

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[SOLVED]Ncurses applications broken

Hi,
I have been using Arch Linux for about an year now. Its really is an awesome distro and I havent faced much problems with it, but for recently a minor bump. I spend most of my time in the console session using the ncurses based applications like finch, tmux, etc. However, recently after installing gnome, these applications appear broken. Instead of drawing lines, the draw a sequence of charachters, which kinda looks ugly. Though, they appear perfect in gnome-terminal/xterm. After, some googling, I found out it might be related to locale settings. In my rc.conf, LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8". Is there anything I am missing out? Any pointers? Appreciate your help.
Last edited by ykm29 (2012-06-19 05:47:32)

madchine wrote:
Trilby wrote:Please search the forums before posting. There have been at least half a dozen threads on this in the past two weeks. One of those threads had a title that was nearly identical to this one.
That would be mine... https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143439
And I wanna say that 'all those others' are pretty well hidden or maybe people just don't know to use clever keywords, like 'ncurses'...
Just pointing out that it is not just limited to ncurses. I had the same problem with mc (which i solved a few days ago), and it depends on slang.

[SOLVED ]makepkg asking for pacman-color binary

After upgrading pacman to 4.1 I'm getting this error every time I run makepkg:
/usr/bin/makepkg -s -i
==> ERROR: Cannot find the pacman-color binary required for dependency operations.
Even if I try to use --nocolor:
/usr/bin/makepkg --nocolor -s -i
==> ERROR: Cannot find the pacman-color binary required for dependency operations.
I've tried enabling and disabling color options in both makepkg.conf and pacman.conf, and the error is still there.
Any clue on what could be going on and how to solve it?
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echo $PACMAN
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EDIT: Indeed, I forgot to edit my .zprofile that used to export PACMAN as pacman-color. Solved now
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[SOLVED] nfsroot install broken after kernel upgrade 3.5.6 to 3.6.2

It seems my nfsroot installations have broken after the kernel upgrade to 3.6.2.
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IP-Config: eth0 complete (from 10.48.50.20):
address: 10.48.50.240 broadcast: 10.48.50.255 netmask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 0.0.0.0 dns0 : 0.0.0.0 dns1: 0.0.0.0
domain : local
rootserver: 10.48.50.20 rootpath:
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NFS-Mount: 10.48.50.20:/srv/nfs4/kvmhost0-rootfs
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mount: Protocol not supported
:: running cleanup hook [udev]
ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]#
On the server this is what is logged:
Oct 16 21:10:04 tuon dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:21:70:eb:02:25 via san
Oct 16 21:10:04 tuon dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.48.50.240 to 00:21:70:eb:02:25 via san
Oct 16 21:10:04 tuon dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.48.50.240 (10.48.50.20) from 00:21:70:eb:02:25 via san
Oct 16 21:10:04 tuon dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.48.50.240 to 00:21:70:eb:02:25 via san
Oct 16 21:10:14 tuon rpc.mountd[1323]: authenticated mount request from 10.48.50.240:684 for /srv/nfs4/kvmhost0-rootfs (/srv/nfs4/kvmhost0-rootfs)
Oct 16 21:10:14 tuon rpc.mountd[1323]: refused unmount request from 10.48.50.240 for /new_root (/): not exported
It looks to me like the client is sending the mount request, the server accepts and then for some reason the client thinks it has failed. I can't even see anything strange in the wireshark traces comparing the working client (3.5.6) to the broken one (3.6.2).
Anyone else using nfsroot successfully with the latest kernel?
Any other ideas?
(by the way - despite my directory names, this is using nfs v3 for the rootfs)
Last edited by kmshanah (2012-10-18 03:18:07)

mikep wrote:
Just to confirm that I also have this problem with nfsroot (nfs4 this time) with 3.6.2. Downgrading the kernel does make it go away.
When it is working normally I do seem to get refused unmount messages at shutdown for some reason
refused unmount request from 192.168.1.86 for / (/): not exported
, but the /new_root bit is new and I have no idea where it comes from.
refused unmount request from 192.168.1.86 for /new_root (/): not exported
So I wonder if it asking for the wrong path.
That unmount issue will be solved by FS#32021.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help with mounting in the first place with 3.6.2

[SOLVED] Wine suddenly broken

Ok first of all I don't know if this is related to the pacman issues that has been reported.
Did an upgrade today wich included an upgrade of wine. Half way through wine it throws an error and doesn't complete the upgrade. It appears as if pacman has removed wine and then not been able to install the newer version of it because now I can't start my apps anymore due to some files missing. Any ideas?
Edit: Ok, so a pacman -Sf wine solved the issue for now it seems.
Last edited by strankan (2009-01-19 22:18:45)

Thanks again for you suggestions.
But I don't think it's causing problems as it's part of Kwin (the KDE windows manager) and if I'm correct Xmonad is another WM.
So I don't think it really has an effect. I think it matters only if you use Kwin and it's effects.
Yes, xmonad is another window manager. But I doubt it has anything to do with this konqueror problem, since it worked perfectly until some update a few days back. Unfortunately I could not find a way to figure out which packages had been updated in the last days (man pacman is silent about that).
Maybe check you Konqueror settings. Or your windows management settings.
In Konqueror look at performance and web settings.
But I can't help you with windows manager.
Again, I doubt that any settings are to blame, because until that ominous update everything worked like a charm.
But I am curious why do you even use Konqueror I'm a KDE user and I don't use it. mostly because Flash can be a bit of a pain sometimes working and sometimes not.
The flash problems are annoying, but other than that Konqueror is the least annoying browser I know of. It is configurable without headaches (it has MENUES for easy configuration), the design is more pleasant than Firefox, and it does not send information about my browsing habits to Google or any other companies.

[SOLVED] Unable to update pacman - Catalyst database issue

Hi there,
I have the AMD catalyst drivers installed for Dell 1555 laptop. As they changed their server URL, I updated my pacman.conf as directed in Arch wiki and then added the GPG key with the following commands.
# pacman-key --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xabed422d653c3094
# pacman-key --lsign-key 0xabed422d653c3094
However, I still get the following error:
error GPGME error: No data
error GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package database...
xorg112 is up to date
catalyst-hd234k is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
error: database 'xorg112' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'catalyst-hd234k' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
Please help.
Last edited by ravisghosh (2013-03-08 20:34:37)

Strangely, I did a pacman -Syu today and it worked well without any error. Not sure what was broken, but it is fixed now.

[SOLVED] can't upgrade pacman: bluez and obexd-client are in conflict.

sorry for the newbie question but I can't find a solution and am unable to update my arch.
]# pacman -Syu pacman
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] n
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace gummiboot-efi with core/gummiboot? [Y/n] n
:: Replace libsoup-gnome with extra/libsoup? [Y/n] n
:: Replace webkitgtk3 with extra/webkitgtk? [Y/n] n
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: bluez and obexd-client are in conflict
does anyone know how to solve this?
Last edited by crashandburn4 (2013-06-30 03:47:05)

hi, really sorry as I said I'm somewhat of a newbie, was waiting to see what you guys thought might be relevant so I could tell you what I've got, here goes:
graphics card: nvidia geforce GTX660.
DE/WM (I assume is desktop environment): gnome
unsure about how I start X (sorry I understand I am a newbie)
oh and everything does seem to be hanging, ctrl-c does nothing.
there were no messages from the update, I checked pacman and didn't see any warnings, (is there any kind of log I can check in case I missed something?), I've chrooted into the disk through the installation medium to reinstall the graphics card drivers (as suggested here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=153206)
Last edited by crashandburn4 (2013-06-30 01:05:39)

[SOLVED] Parsing output of pacman -Qm to an bash array

Hey guys,
I'm currently writing a small bash script to check if there are any updates for my packages installed from the AUR. For this I need to get an array from the output of
pacman -Qm
. I've tried this
packages=(`pacman -Qm`)
, but this isn't that what I've intended for.
I want to have an array like this
packages=("packagename version", "packagename version" ...)
Does anybody know the way, how to solve this problem?
Best regards,
the_metalgamer
Last edited by the_metalgamer (2013-02-23 22:24:11)

Just to clarify this:
With the solution in post #2 the IFS variable will contain just an "n". So any package name containing an "n" will be cut into pieces.
$ echo ${packages[1]}
e emyli es3 1.2-1
The correct splitting is not caused by the IFS variable but by the read command which ALWAYS stops reading at a newline no matter what the IFS is set to. So there is no need to set the IFS variable to anything different and just use
packages=(); while read -r; do packages+=("$REPLY"); done < <(pacman -Qm)

[Solved] I've broken pacman

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