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hydrosIII

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Registered: 2013-04-04

Posts: 127

[Solved] pacman hangs in step "resolving dependencies"

Hi, Today i tried to update my system with pacman -Syu, however it hangs in the process of searching file conflicts. I read this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=179638 tand followed the suggestions, it didn't worked.

Here i  post SOME of the output of pacman -Syu --debug

...
debug: checkdeps: package tea-37.2.0-1
debug: checkdeps: package tzdata-2014b-1
debug: checkdeps: package util-linux-2.24.1-4
debug: checkdeps: package vde2-2.3.2-6
debug: checkdeps: package vim-runtime-7.4.214-1
debug: checkdeps: package vim-7.4.214-1
debug: checkdeps: package virtualbox-host-dkms-4.3.10-1
debug: checkdeps: package virtualbox-4.3.10-1
debug: checkdeps: package virtualbox-sdk-4.3.10-1
debug: checkdeps: package vlc-2.1.4-2
debug: checkdeps: package xbmc-12.3-14
debug: checkdeps: package xcb-proto-1.10-2
debug: checkdeps: package xorg-util-macros-1.19.0-1
debug: checkdeps: package xorg-xrandr-1.4.2-

Getting to xorg-xrandr package pacman hangs, however i dont think it is related with the xorg-xrandr package since i try to reinstall pacman with:
pacman -S pacman  --debug
getting the following output:

...
debug: looking for conflicts
debug: check targets vs targets
debug: check targets vs targets
debug: check targets vs db and db vs targets
debug: check targets vs db
debug: check db vs targets
debug: checking dependencies
debug: checkdeps: package pacman-4.1.2-

I have not any NFS or Samba storage mounted or configured, just one local disk. However i have just grown my root partition from 32 to 100 GB, using gparted in livecd since my arch partition became full, so i think this issue has something to do with that.

Any ideas??

Last edited by hydrosIII (2014-04-10 05:45:14)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] pacman hangs in step "resolving dependencies"

Please don't post partial logs: paste the entire thing to a pastebin and link to it.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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hydrosIII

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Registered: 2013-04-04

Posts: 127

Re: [Solved] pacman hangs in step "resolving dependencies"

Sorry everything seemed normal to me with the logs. i didnt think they are relevant. Sorry, here there are the complete logs.
http://pastebin.com/8tLCQm60

and

http://pastebin.com/VbkD5ihw.

hydrosIII

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Registered: 2013-04-04

Posts: 127

Re: [Solved] pacman hangs in step "resolving dependencies"

I solved the problem, it turned out to be my fault. Before i grew the partition i had another partition mounted in /var/cache/pacman to hold the pacman packages. I erased it to grow my root partition over it but i forgot to erase the entry in the fstab file, so the system was trying to mount the partition but it didnt exist anymore. The result was a broken mount, that was making pacman hang, since it searched for the files in /var/cache/pacman.

Silly me!