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jbsnake

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Registered: 2004-04-26

Posts: 23

ever feel caught in a loop of dependencies?

<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 current                  [################] 100%      37K    70.5K/s  00:00:00
 extra                    [################] 100%     143K    76.6K/s  00:00:01
:: xorg conflicts with ttf-bitstream-vera. Remove ttf-bitstream-vera? [Y/n] y
Segmentation fault

<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo rm -f /tmp/pacman.lck
<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 current                  [################] 100%      37K    70.7K/s  00:00:00
 extra                    [################] 100%     143K    66.9K/s  00:00:02
:: xorg conflicts with ttf-bitstream-vera. Remove ttf-bitstream-vera? [Y/n] n

error: package conflicts detected

<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh ->

jbsnake

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Registered: 2004-04-26

Posts: 23

Re: ever feel caught in a loop of dependencies?

just read a post about this issue in the pacman forum...i tried what was said there to do...i got this

<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo pacman -Rd ttf-bitstream-vera
removing ttf-bitstream-vera... done.
<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 current                  [################] 100%      37K    70.0K/s  00:00:00
 extra                    [################] 100%     143K   184.4K/s  00:00:00
Segmentation fault
<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo pacman -Syu
error: unable to lock pacman database.
       if you're sure pacman is not already running, you
       can remove /tmp/pacman.lck
<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo rm -f /tmp/pacman.lck
<- jb:/home/jbsnake/.ssh -> sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 current                  [################] 100%      37K    70.1K/s  00:00:00
 extra                    [################] 100%     143K    37.5K/s  00:00:03
Segmentation fault

now what?

dauphin

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2003-07-09

Posts: 188

Re: ever feel caught in a loop of dependencies?

I had a similar problem.  I think what I did was reboot, then installed xorg (pacman -S xorg) then did the pacman -Syu

jbsnake

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Registered: 2004-04-26

Posts: 23

Re: ever feel caught in a loop of dependencies?

i refuse to reboot 
doing the following seems to have worked

<- jb:/home/jbsnake/scripts -> sudo pacman -S xorg

Remove:  xfree86

Targets: xorg-11R6.7.0-1

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y

checking package integrity... done.
removing xfree86... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so: exists in filesystem
  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1: exists in filesystem
  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.so: exists in filesystem
  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.so.1: exists in filesystem

<- jb:/home/jbsnake/scripts -> sudo rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so*
<- jb:/home/jbsnake/scripts -> sudo rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.so*
<- jb:/home/jbsnake/scripts -> sudo pacman -S xorg

Targets: xorg-11R6.7.0-1

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
installing xorg... done.
updating font cache... done.

whether i broke something down the road i'm not sure about...
point is...it works now 

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

Posts: 2,975

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Re: ever feel caught in a loop of dependencies?

pacman -Sf xorg would have saved you a bit of time.

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mr_ed

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-04-13

Posts: 72

Re: ever feel caught in a loop of dependencies?

Hey jbsnake,

Good to see another usalugger here. 

Glad your problem's fixed, too.