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VoiDeR

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Registered: 2005-09-17

Posts: 16

Fresh install "pacman -Syu" Problem

I just install arch 0.7.2 Gimmick (only arch cd i have). I figured i would just update after i get the system up and running well heres the error i get when i run that command...

Total Package Size:   104.61 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(78/78) checking for file conflicts                 [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough space on disk)

I still have over 5.5 gigs left AFTER the packages are downloaded. I tried installing just a single package but i still get the same error message.

Jessehk

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From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 152

Re: Fresh install "pacman -Syu" Problem

This might be a really stupid suggestion, but did you make sure you actually installed Arch and you aren't just running the install CD?

If it is a stupid suggestion, then I'm sorry for questioning your Linux skills.

VoiDeR

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Registered: 2005-09-17

Posts: 16

Re: Fresh install "pacman -Syu" Problem

No question is a dumb question! Actually I chrooted in to arch via gentoo. I needed a net connection so i could install the wlan-ng26 packages. Not sure what caused the problem but when i rebooted in to arch all was well. Only thing i can think if was i didnt have /proc mounted so maybe pacman wasnt able to tell how much drive space was left?? All is well now.

[vEX]

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: Fresh install "pacman -Syu" Problem

Just for future reference, since I run 32-bit Arch in a chroot I also the same error when trying to run pacman -Syu after upgrading to Pacman 3. I asked on the forums and someone (can't remember who) pointed out that I should tell mtab could use some loving. Because running mount would show no / mounted, which is true since I just chrooted. So to solve it I just put "/dev/sda5 / ext3 rw 0 0" into /etc/mtab in the chroot and pacman worked great.

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VoiDeR

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Registered: 2005-09-17

Posts: 16

Re: Fresh install "pacman -Syu" Problem

Well i think im going to ditch gentoo (3 year user) for arch so hopefully i wont have to chroot install after this.

pl2lnce

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Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 8

Re: Fresh install "pacman -Syu" Problem

I get the Same Error when trying to chroot into my system from a kubuntu live cd.

I followed the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _Interface and typed the following commands in the terminal.

sudo mkdir /mnt/arch
sudo mount -t jfs /dev/sdb3 /mnt/arch
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/arch/etc/
sudo mount -t proc none /mnt/arch/proc
sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/arch/dev
sudo chroot /mnt/arch /bin/bash
source /etc/profile

I am fairly new to linux, with my only other experience being a few months of ubuntu, so i dont really understand what needs to be changed with /etc/mtab.  can somebody please explain this further to me.