Pacman freezes

murffatksig · 2004-10-01 06:23:43

Recently I did a

pacman -Syu

and it said there was a new version of pacman available, and to update it first. So I did. But then pacman wont work. I run pacman -Syu again but affer synchronizing the packages databases, it just sits there and does nothing else.

Any ideas?

z4ziggy · 2004-10-01 07:08:38

which pacman version?
at which stage does it freeze?
have u tried changing the repositories in the appropriate section (current/extra...)? maybe its just an ftp problem...

murffatksig · 2004-10-01 20:23:05

z4ziggy wrote:

which pacman version?

2.9.1

z4ziggy wrote:

at which stage does it freeze?

after its done updating the repositories

z4ziggy wrote:

have u tried changing the repositories in the appropriate section (current/extra...)? maybe its just an ftp problem...

well, i only use current and extra. I added testing so I could get gnome 2.8. But I'll try fidling with the repositories some more.

freakyc · 2004-10-01 21:32:43

Just pacman freezes? Or does it hard lock your computer?

pacman tends to get stuck on me sometimes and I have to Ctl-C it to get it going again.

And I resized my reiserfs partition one day, and then I likely should've ran a reiserfsck on it, cause instead I just started using it and pacman started giving strange errors, and then hard locking my computer. Long story short, it was because I'd pretty much FUBAR'd my filesystem.

apeiro · 2004-10-01 21:49:11

Pacman 2.9.1 is nice and broken. Download the 2.9.2 package manually and upgrade to it.

# wget ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686/pacman-2.9.2-1.pkg.tar.gz
# pacman -U pacman-2.9.2-1.pkg.tar.gz

if pacman -U also hangs on you (which it shouldn't, only --sync should) then you'll have to manually uncompress the .pkg.tar.gz file and copy the pacman binary to /usr/bin/.

murffatksig · 2004-10-01 22:21:45

Yup, got pacman 2.9.2 and it works beautifly, thanks!

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