[SOLVED] Hating pacman right now

Linoman · 2012-01-29 16:40:57

Hello everybody, I've been a happy arch user for some years now (4 I think) but now after some upgrades 2 weeks ago I can't use pacman.

[root@Mexicola ~]# sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
if you're sure a package manager is not already
running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
[root@Mexicola ~]# sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/pacman/db.lck': No such file or directory

I don't have space problems as with this other post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1045162

I tried reinstalling everything like in this other post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95007 but doesn't work after fixing package versions. Tar doesn't overwrite anything because it's read only.

usr/share/man/man3/ASN1_STRING_length_set.3.gz
tar: usr/share/man/man3/ASN1_STRING_length_set.3.gz: Cannot create symlink to `ASN1_STRING_length.3.gz': File exists
usr/share/man/man3/RSA_new.3.gz
tar: usr/share/man/man3/RSA_new.3.gz: Cannot open: File exists
usr/share/man/man3/DES_ecb3_encrypt.3.gz
tar: usr/share/man/man3/DES_ecb3_encrypt.3.gz: Cannot create symlink to `des.3.gz': File exists
usr/share/man/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.3.gz
tar: usr/share/man/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.3.gz: Cannot open: File exists
usr/share/man/man3/EVP_PKEY_ctrl_str.3.gz
tar: usr/share/man/man3/EVP_PKEY_ctrl_str.3.gz: Cannot create symlink to `EVP_PKEY_CTX_ctrl.3.gz': File exists
usr/share/man/man7/des_modes.7.gz
tar: usr/share/man/man7/des_modes.7.gz: Cannot open: File exists
tar: usr: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
tar: usr: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 0: Read-only file system
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Any help wpuld be appreciated.

Last edited by Linoman (2012-02-06 12:26:20)

falconindy · 2012-01-29 16:55:07

So the real question is -- why is your root read only? This is the cause of all your problems.

Linoman · 2012-02-01 00:15:46

Sorry for the late replay. So what number should I use with chmod -r 750 /root/?

I was thinking this would be the optimal solution https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … upgrade.21

Any advice?

Stebalien · 2012-02-01 03:11:15

falconindy means root as in '/'. Post your /etc/mtab.

falconindy · 2012-02-01 04:20:01

it's more likely that /etc/fstab has no entry for the / partition. Seems to be the latest wtf going around...

Linoman · 2012-02-02 18:57:57

What the...? When does this happened?

cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda6 /media/Fatboy ntfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0

Let me fix this and see if the scripts works. Anybody knows why this happened?

Linoman · 2012-02-02 19:27:49

I dont have root on my fstab but I can't mount anything because it's already mounted. Also I can't edit fstab, its read-only.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Linoman (2012-02-02 19:34:14)

Stebalien · 2012-02-02 19:29:13

mount -o remount,rw /

Then edit your fstab.

Last edited by Stebalien (2012-02-02 19:29:59)

Linoman · 2012-02-02 19:42:57

Thank you Stebalien and FalconIndy. My fstab was messed up. After that a simple reboot (just to be sured everything loaded nicely) and pacman worked very well. Well I still have to upgrade it to pacman 4.0.

Thanks guys. This can be marked as solved.

Still, can somebody tell me what happened to my fstab? It was ok a few weeks ago.

falconindy · 2012-02-02 19:58:11

http://projects.archlinux.org/initscrip … 0829c5fe44

Linoman · 2012-02-02 21:35:26

Thanks falconindy

Marked as solved

litemotiv · 2012-02-02 21:40:56

Linoman wrote:

Thanks falconindy
Marked as solved

Don't forget to edit the first post and change 'pacman' in the topic title to 'myself'.

karol · 2012-02-02 21:59:50

Don't forget to actually mark the thread as solved ;P

Linoman · 2012-02-03 07:51:04

Don't forget to edit the first post and change 'pacman' in the topic title to 'myself'.

Why myself? I didn't break fstab!!

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