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Xelinis

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Registered: 2008-05-28

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[FIXED]Can't install any packages after Syu

So I did my first ever pacman -Syu today and I'm having severe pacman issues now.  At the bootup screen, it will complain about how it is unable to mount the pacman database.  Whenever I try to install a new package, I get hundreds of lines worth of errors, all the them ending in "already exists in filesystem."

I'll post more of the output later tonight when it cools down in my apartment, the laptop this is all happening on is having overheating problems at the moment.

In the meantime, ideas??

Last edited by Xelinis (2008-06-10 01:46:40)

Allan

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Re: [FIXED]Can't install any packages after Syu

At the bootup screen, it will complain about how it is unable to mount the pacman database.

So you have /var/lib/pacman on a separate partition?  From you description, pacman can not find that folder and so does not know which package any of the files on your system come from.  So it sounds like a mounting issue rather than a pacman issue.

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Xelinis

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Registered: 2008-05-28

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Re: [FIXED]Can't install any packages after Syu

Well, I'm an idiot.  I forgot to add 'loop' to MODULES.

Fixed.