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#1 2012-01-17 16:07:09

TheAmigo
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[solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Like others, I removed yaourt and package-query because they conflicted with pacman4... not worried about that, I'll reinstall them later.

I put the new pacman.conf in place (my old one wasn't really customized).  I left SigLevel = Never.

Now, I can run pacman -Sy fine, but if I try to install anything, I it just hangs:

sudo pacman -S audacity
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): audacity-1.3.14-2

Total Download Size:    3.21 MiB
Total Installed Size:   15.29 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       -0.00 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 audacity-1.3.14-2-x86_64     3.2 MiB  1397K/s 00:02 [###########################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                     [###########################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                          [###########################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                    [###########################] 100%

I've waited up to 20 or 30 minutes and nothing happens.  It's not just audacity, any package I try to install does this.

Suggestions?

Last edited by TheAmigo (2012-01-17 18:55:38)

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#2 2012-01-17 18:55:20

TheAmigo
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Having rebooted, it's working now so I'll mark it as solved.

Does pacman load any kernel modules?  I was running 3.1.8, but had previously installed 3.1.9.  Thus, without having rebooted, I was missing the modules for my current kernel (though I didn't expect to be loading any in the short term).

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#3 2012-01-18 19:59:48

drrossum
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Same problem here.  Does this mean pacman can no longer install packages after a kernel upgrade unless you reboot?  That'd be sad, because rebooting is a pain, and I can't do it after every new kernel!

Is this a bug in pacman4?  Or do we have to live with it?

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#4 2012-01-18 20:43:22

falconindy
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Is CheckSpace enabled? Can you post an operation that hangs with --debug added to it?

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#5 2012-01-18 21:56:26

drrossum
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

With --debug switch it prints:

...
checking for file conflicts...
debug: looking for file conflicts
debug: searching for file conflicts: coreutils
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: coreutils
debug: searching for file conflicts: ethtool
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: ethtool
debug: searching for file conflicts: fail2ban
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: fail2ban
debug: searching for file conflicts: gpgme
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: gpgme
debug: searching for file conflicts: vim-runtime
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: vim-runtime
debug: searching for file conflicts: gvim
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: gvim
debug: searching for file conflicts: hdparm
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: hdparm
debug: searching for file conflicts: inetutils
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: inetutils
debug: searching for file conflicts: lib32-glibc
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: lib32-glibc
debug: searching for file conflicts: lib32-gcc-libs
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: lib32-gcc-libs
debug: searching for file conflicts: lib32-glib2
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: lib32-glib2
debug: searching for file conflicts: lib32-gdk-pixbuf2
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: lib32-gdk-pixbuf2
debug: searching for file conflicts: lib32-pango
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: lib32-pango
debug: searching for file conflicts: lib32-gtk2
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: lib32-gtk2
debug: searching for file conflicts: linux
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: linux
debug: searching for file conflicts: nspluginwrapper
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: nspluginwrapper
debug: searching for file conflicts: nvidia
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: nvidia
debug: searching for file conflicts: qtwebkit
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: qtwebkit
debug: searching for file conflicts: rpcbind
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: rpcbind
debug: searching for file conflicts: unrar
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: unrar
debug: searching for file conflicts: xscreensaver
debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: xscreensaver
checking available disk space...
debug: checking available disk space

Without the --debug switch

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(21/21) checking package integrity                   [############################] 100%
(21/21) loading package files                        [############################] 100%
(21/21) checking for file conflicts                  [############################] 100%

Note that the 'checking available disk space...' is not printed without the --debug option although it doesn't look like being 'debug output'.

I don't see much disk activity after that and the pacman process uses no CPU time and the process status goes to D in `ps` (man ps says: D: Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)).

Last edited by drrossum (2012-01-18 21:58:28)

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#6 2012-01-18 21:57:35

falconindy
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

can you rerun without debug, but under strace, i.e.

# strace pacman -Su

What kinds of filesystems are you using, out of curiosity?

Last edited by falconindy (2012-01-18 21:58:00)

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#7 2012-01-18 22:08:24

drrossum
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

You were right, it was hanging at checking a nfs mount to a machine that went offline.  Purging that mount solved the issue.

For who may need it: commenting out the "CheckSpace" option in pacman.conf avoids the problem, as a workaround.

Thanks!

Last edited by drrossum (2012-01-18 22:09:19)

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#8 2012-01-19 12:55:23

TheAmigo
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Ah, that would explain my issue too... I tend to have transient nfs mounts.

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#9 2012-06-19 02:33:58

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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

As an aside, how do you guys mount your nfs shares?

I use autofs and I haven't seen this behavior from pacman but to be honest, I haven't tested this thoroughly. Also, falconindy is there a way to fix this without having to comment CheckSpace ? I would imagine many users don't remove their nfs mount each time they run pacman -- and sometimes some machines on my network do tend to be unavailable.


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#10 2012-06-19 03:03:08

Allan
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Inxsible wrote:

Also, falconindy is there a way to fix this without having to comment CheckSpace ?

I believe there are patches from falconindy on the pacman-dev mailing list that will avoid this issue.

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#11 2012-06-19 03:42:31

Inxsible
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Thanks Allan smile


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#12 2012-08-22 20:22:14

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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

Just a quick note for anyone pulling their hair out. Pacman tends to choke on this step if you have an NFS partition mounted but your connection to the server has dropped. I get this all the time when I switch wireless networks without unmounting the NFS share of my home server.

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#13 2012-08-22 22:53:42

falconindy
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Re: [solved] pacman 4 hangs after "checking for file conflicts"

DarwinSurvivor wrote:

Just a quick note for anyone pulling their hair out. Pacman tends to choke on this step if you have an NFS partition mounted but your connection to the server has dropped. I get this all the time when I switch wireless networks without unmounting the NFS share of my home server.

Thanks for reprising the thread. As Allan mentioned, this is fixed in pacman:

http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.gi … d29333fb5a

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