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Galdona

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Registered: 2006-03-15

Posts: 196

pacman always hangs at certain point [mysteriously solved]

Whenever I run pacman and confirm that I want to upgrade (any package[s]), the output always gets stuck at this point:

:: pacman-3.0.5-2: local version is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

and I have to kill it by process id. Rebooting didn't help. Could something be corrupt? How can I check?

Last edited by Galdona (2007-08-18 00:16:00)

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: pacman always hangs at certain point [mysteriously solved]

The above is output of pacman -S pacman ?
Try adding --debug flag and paste output here.
Maybe show your pacman.conf as well.

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

Doehni

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 175

Re: pacman always hangs at certain point [mysteriously solved]

I had the same problem with kernel26-2.6.22-4 and an externel HD attached via Firewire or USB.
After detaching the HD, pacman immediatly started to work again.
That was a problem with a driver in kernel 2.6.22 and was fixed with the new kernel release .23

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: pacman always hangs at certain point [mysteriously solved]

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/My_ … _crawls%21

That might also help, though I'm not sure.

Galdona

Member

Registered: 2006-03-15

Posts: 196

Re: pacman always hangs at certain point [mysteriously solved]

It's working now... don't know why. Thanks everybody.

xyon

Member

Registered: 2007-09-17

Posts: 23

Re: pacman always hangs at certain point [mysteriously solved]

I've found that this had to do with NFS mishaps.. if you see this issue, see to unmount NFS shares (or check to see if some are stale)..