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gaenserich

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2010-06-07

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[Solved] CheckSpace step freezes pacman, df

Hi all,

I had an unfortunate X-crash while I was installing some updates through pacman -Syu on a terminal, and to reboot. Subsequently, whenever I attempted to any other updates after the reboot, pacman would stall at the point right before doing a space check. I noticed, too, that df doesn't work either (it hangs without stating anything, requiring a sigkill...sigterm doesn't do anything).

I have a temporary work around (I disabled CheckSpace in pacman.conf), but would like to resolve the hang in general. Any thoughts?

My filesystems:

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
/dev/mapper/root / ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered 0 0 (via LUKS)
/dev/mapper/home /home ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered 0 0 (via LUKS)

I use systemd for boot up.

Last edited by gaenserich (2012-07-28 17:51:52)

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gaenserich

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2010-06-07

Posts: 119

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Re: [Solved] CheckSpace step freezes pacman, df

Found the issue: an sshfs file system was hanging, which caused df and other fs checks to stall out. It wasn't some sort of horrible database or filesystem corruption as feared. feh!

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