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Jadedknight

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Registered: 2007-12-15

Posts: 10

Problem with Shaman

Whenever I try to install or remove something with Shaman I always get the following error:

Alpm did not give further details.

I tried googling and searching the forums but did not find anything.

Surgat_

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 317

Re: Problem with Shaman

I get this error quite often, when I lose my wifi signal. May be that?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Problem with Shaman

Can you run it from the command line and post the output?

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Jadedknight

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Registered: 2007-12-15

Posts: 10

Re: Problem with Shaman

I do not use wifi, and Allan, could you explain further? I am a noob

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: Problem with Shaman

I do not use wifi, and Allan, could you explain further? I am a noob

He means open a terminal, and run

shaman

Then, when the errors occur, copy and paste the terminal output here for us.

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Jadedknight

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Registered: 2007-12-15

Posts: 10

Re: Problem with Shaman

Auth failed!
Unable to add Target: "gtkpacman-svn"
Unable to add Target: "hal-cups-utils"
Unable to add Target: "kdemod-kdeutils-printer-applet"
Unable to add Target: "pygtk"
Unable to add Target: "python-notify"
Unable to add Target: "system-config-printer"
Unable to add Target: "vte"
Could not prepare transaction
Error Thread Waiting.
Creating Preparing Error
Streaming Awakening to Error Thread
Error Thread awake.
Transaction released, returning...
Errors occurred, Transaction was not completed

These are the errors!

Jadedknight

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Registered: 2007-12-15

Posts: 10

Re: Problem with Shaman

Does anyone have a solution? I cannot really do anything... maybe a re install?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Problem with Shaman

Try clearing out the config file - "rm -rf ~/.config/shaman".    Does pacman work without trouble?

Try a post to the shaman forums/bug tracker.  The developer is very good at responding to packages.

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Jadedknight

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Registered: 2007-12-15

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Re: Problem with Shaman

Hmm that did not work but I can post there

rocknrolf77

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 68

Re: Problem with Shaman

Getting the same problem here. Anyone got a solution?

Edit : Shaman works as root, but I want to run shaman as unprivileged user.

Last edited by rocknrolf77 (2009-04-07 19:23:44)

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3nd3r

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Re: Problem with Shaman

before I installed the 64 bit version, I was having the same issue. it would just lock up.

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rocknrolf77

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: Problem with Shaman

I have 64-bit on my box. I'm so used to starting my apps with gnome-do now, so I don't want to break my workflow

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Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

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Re: Problem with Shaman

You just have to clear the pacman lock and everything shouldwork, at least that's when I get the alpm error.

sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

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jappel

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Registered: 2009-04-09

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Re: Problem with Shaman

You just have to clear the pacman lock and everything shouldwork, at least that's when I get the alpm error.

Does not work here. The lock file has been cleared alright, ie /var/lib/pacman/db.lck does not exist. It has something to do with shaman failing to auth as root when i give the root passwort (console output:Auth failed!) So the reason why shaman works when we start as root is because it already runs a root and does not need to get the root pass to continue.

In short: Somewhere between getting the root password and starting processes as root shaman fails.

RichSelian

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From: China

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 43

Re: Problem with Shaman

I have the same problem. But shaman works perfectly when I run it as root.

arliuse

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Registered: 2009-07-29

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Re: Problem with Shaman

I had this weird problem once that LaTeX2rtf (afaik pacman needs this) was gone. I couldn't get some of the packages, and shaman returned that same error. Strangely enough, after I've typed in pacman -Sy the problem was gone.