Pacman hanging on "checking for file conflicts"

phunni · 2012-08-09 09:44:51

I've tried running pacman -Syu on my laptop and pacman is simply hanging at the checking for file conflicts stage. I've let it sit for several minutes, but it never seems to get past that stage. The list of packages to be updated isn't long:

Targets (5): bison-2.6.2-1  chromium-21.0.1180.75-1  flex-2.5.37-1  libldap-2.4.32-1  lm_sensors-3.3.2-4

This is being done on a laptop that was only recently rebuilt with a new Arch install using the latest installation media. The install went well and previous updates have worked with no problems.

Terminator · 2012-08-09 09:56:29

clear your cache 'pacman -Scc'

jasonwryan · 2012-08-09 10:06:41

Run pacman with the --debug option.

phunni · 2012-08-09 12:58:36

Terminator wrote:

clear your cache 'pacman -Scc'

That seemed to fix it. I'm just very surprised that the cache need clearing already - as I say, this install is only a few days old...

cfr · 2012-08-12 02:24:12

I'm glad you solved the problem but "pacman -Scc" shouldn't be necessary and makes it more difficult to recover in a variety of situations. You can always re-download old packages but having them in your cache makes it easy to roll something back and makes it possible to do this without, for example, a working network connection. I installed in November and I've never even run "pacman -Sc" let alone "pacman -Scc". (Though I have trimmed the cache to free up disk space using, I think, paccache.)

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#1 2012-08-09 09:44:51

Pacman hanging on "checking for file conflicts"

#2 2012-08-09 09:56:29

Re: Pacman hanging on "checking for file conflicts"

#3 2012-08-09 10:06:41

Re: Pacman hanging on "checking for file conflicts"

#4 2012-08-09 12:58:36

Re: Pacman hanging on "checking for file conflicts"

#5 2012-08-12 02:24:12

Re: Pacman hanging on "checking for file conflicts"

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