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Jalfor

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Registered: 2011-11-02

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[SOLVED] Pacman SegFault

When in the package installation bit of the installation, pacman segfaults. (I'm running it on VirtualBox atm)

Here is a screenshot of when it first goes wrong.

and after that, it says that it actually can't even get some stuff from the mirror I selected

and finally,

Thanks for any help

Last edited by Jalfor (2012-05-09 14:37:26)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman SegFault

How much storage have you alloted to arch?  This could be due to running out of space on the drive/partition.

But more on point: did you do what it suggested and run with --debug?

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Jalfor

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Registered: 2011-11-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman SegFault

That seemed to be the problem. Thanks

As for running it with --debug, I was still in the installation so I couldn't really.

x33a

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman SegFault

How much storage have you alloted to arch?  This could be due to running out of space on the drive/partition.

I thought pacman informs the user about low disk space situations.

frette

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Registered: 2012-05-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman SegFault

it kinda did...
the error states "error writing to file"

I have to admit, actually stating why it failed would be useful (and I'm always pissed when I get an error message that simply says: "something went wrong", as if I wouldn't have seen that already, being that redundant in an error message is just adding insult to injury... but I digress...), but there's usually the same reasons why writing fails:

insufficient rights (doesn't apply here, he's root)
hardware error
no more space left on drive
lost connection to network storage (doesn't apply here either)

So... in a way pacman at least limited the choices what might have gone wrong