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srimalik

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

[solved]pacman seems to be stuck in infinite loop

Hi, All
I was trying out gnome2.20 which is till in testing.
Installation of the packages was smooth, but I could not start X after the installation.
The Xorg logs said that there was no X sever installed while the It was listed in the pacman -Q
I decided to remove everything and do it again so I did a

pacman -Rc xorg-server

During the removal I thought of taking a backup of my xorg.conf and intruppted the package removal process by Ctrl+C.

After copying the xorg.conf
I re ran 

pacman -Rc xorg-server

but it seems to be running in loop.

The message printed are like(these are not the actual message as I  dun have an acces to the system)

Kmplayer not found in database
..
..
Kmplayer not found in database
..
..
Kmplayer not found in database

So presently am not able to do anything (install/remove X). Text mode is working fine though.

Can somebdy suggest some workaround(deleting/adding) something from/in the pacman database. or smthing like that.

Thanks
Sri

Last edited by srimalik (2007-10-08 16:49:49)

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [solved]pacman seems to be stuck in infinite loop

What if you run "pacman -Sf xorg-server" or "pacman -Rd xorg-server"?

srimalik

Member

Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: [solved]pacman seems to be stuck in infinite loop

Thanks for the quick reply, but I dun have the system at this time, Will try these commands in the morning and tell you the results.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [solved]pacman seems to be stuck in infinite loop

I would rather try to do that with kmplayer (pacman -S or pacman -R or both).

Otherwise, the loop itself should be fixed in pacman 3.1.
But what caused the loop in the first place, I am not sure. There might still be a problem in the interruption handling.
Pacman is supposed to catch ctrl+c for exiting cleanly, But maybe it failed to in this case.. I don't know.

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

srimalik

Member

Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: [solved]pacman seems to be stuck in infinite loop

Forcefully removing the packages worked and I installed gnome 2.18. Its up and running now.

There seems to be some problems with interrupt handling in pacman though, It didn't leave the system in a consistent state.

Thanks
Sri

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [solved]pacman seems to be stuck in infinite loop

There seems to be some problems with interrupt handling in pacman though, It didn't leave the system in a consistent state.

If you wanted this to be improved, you would need to find a way to reproduce this bug, and then report it on bugs.archlinux.org .

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