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Habi

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Registered: 2013-11-18

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failed to initialize alpm library(couldn't find or read directory)

Above error occured when trying to run this command.

pacman -S xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit

I came to know that everytime I use pacman command, I get that error.

First I thought that may be due to interenet problem. But, when I used ping -c 3 google.com , it worked fine. Still, I can't find out the problem. I'm using 64 bit of Arch linux. I've already configured pacman.conf too.

Last edited by Habi (2013-11-18 16:57:47)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: failed to initialize alpm library(couldn't find or read directory)

Are you chrooted into the system? Booted up?

What did you configure in pacman.conf?

WorMzy

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Re: failed to initialize alpm library(couldn't find or read directory)

Do you have a separate /var partition? Can you confirm whether or not /var/lib/pacman exists?

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Habi

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Registered: 2013-11-18

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Re: failed to initialize alpm library(couldn't find or read directory)

@Scimmia I added the following lines to the bottom of the config file:
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

@WorMzy Yes, I've seperate partition for /var , /home, /root and /data directory and /var is in /dev/sda4.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: failed to initialize alpm library(couldn't find or read directory)

Are all these partitions mounted?

Can you confirm whether or not /var/lib/pacman exists?

Habi

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Registered: 2013-11-18

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Re: failed to initialize alpm library(couldn't find or read directory)

I knew where I went wrong. I forgot to mount that /var partition. Now, problem solved. Thanks everyone.

karol

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Re: failed to initialize alpm library(couldn't find or read directory)

Next time please search before posting https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1288460

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309