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poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 177

segfault with pacman 3.3.0-3 [solved]

pacman crashed and i dont have the output bc it is upstream of the start of my scrollback buffer.  basically one of two things happen after issueing:

$ sudo pacman -Sy <some group>

for various groups (ie base, kde, etc):

1. the packages download and then pacman complains that all the archives are corrupted (one at a time asking for confirmation to delete). 

2.  a bunch of lines to scroll by having the format:

...
7f...-7f... <permissions> <8 digit string> xx:xx <some process id>
...
Aborted

first of all i doubt this is an actual bug since the outcome of the instigating command is variable when the command is issued twice in succession.  however i want to follow up on the issue properly and submit the report but i dont know how to submit the report.  i tried searching this forum with "howto bug report" but got nothing pertinent.  where would i look for such a protocol?  any other suggestions would be helpful

thanks

Last edited by poopship21 (2009-08-23 21:08:00)

poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 177

Re: segfault with pacman 3.3.0-3 [solved]

just for the hell of it i ran:

$ sudo shutdown -Fr now

and fsck reported several errors in root and i confirmed the repairs.  i then logged in and ran "pacman -Syu kde" to try to reproduce the errors and i got a bunch of corrupted packages like before.  maybe that was an artifact of the previous (pre fsck) issuance of the pacman command.  i will try to complete the installation and report the results.

poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 177

Re: segfault with pacman 3.3.0-3 [solved]

packages that were identified as corrupt, packman was run and again downloaded corrupt packages.  fsck was run again and no errors were found.  at this point it is either the packman library that is bad or possibly the repo.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: segfault with pacman 3.3.0-3 [solved]

does pacman segfault or do you always get corrupted packages?
which mirror are you using?

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 177

Re: segfault with pacman 3.3.0-3 [solved]

repo:
Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/x86_64

in fact i realized that the problem was not pacman per se.  whatever it was, it probably happened because i was using delayed-write 'ala-ext4 when my building suffered a brown-out.  i subsequently found many config files on / unusable and decided to just replace everything.  my system was so messed up that lvm2 was crashing on the live cd when i tried activate the volumes on the hdd containing my root partition (that being the only hdd available).  everything is back to normal now.  i went back to good old reiserfs for root and bought a battery.