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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.
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I get this error quite often, when I lose my wifi signal. May be that?
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Can you run it from the command line and post the output?
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I do not use wifi, and Allan, could you explain further? I am a noob
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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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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!
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Does anyone have a solution? I cannot really do anything... maybe a re install?
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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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Hmm that did not work but I can post there
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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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before I installed the 64 bit version, I was having the same issue. it would just lock up.
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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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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
Arch x86_64 ATI AMD APU KDE frameworks 5
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Whatever I do, I always end up with something horribly mis-configured.
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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.
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I have the same problem. But shaman works perfectly when I run it as root.
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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.
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