[Solved] System semi-broken after doing an interrupted update

sanhuesoft · 2013-12-18 21:05:25

Hello, I came here because I broke my Arch installation. A few days ago I left the laptop downloading the packages to update (via sudo pacman -Syu), but I didn't realize it was running just on battery. When I came back, I realized that the computer was off. After checking, I saw the packages were not updated correctly, and now my system is "semi-broken".

The system is now in english (I'm from Chile so I want it in spanish). When I put "locale" in konsole I get the following response:

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

What can I do to solve this problem?

Last edited by sanhuesoft (2013-12-19 19:20:05)

karol · 2013-12-18 21:19:20

Have you tried setting locale to Spanish?
What's the output of 'locale -a'?

tomk · 2013-12-18 22:06:53

Did you run -Syu again? And is the locale issue the only symptom of "semi-brokenness'?

life_enjoyer · 2013-12-18 22:27:50

I would reword the title to replace "partial" with "interrupted" as "partial" makes it sound like you did this

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sanhuesoft · 2013-12-18 22:53:53

karol wrote:

Have you tried setting locale to Spanish?
What's the output of 'locale -a'?

C
POSIX
es_CL.utf8

tomk wrote:

Did you run -Syu again? And is the locale issue the only symptom of "semi-brokenness'?

I completed the update, I have had to force a package. The other problems were solved by me.

life_enjoyer wrote:

I would reword the title to replace "partial" with "interrupted" as "partial" makes it sound like you did this

Roger that.

karol · 2013-12-18 22:57:23

Have you tried setting locale to Spanish?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

sanhuesoft · 2013-12-18 23:46:04

karol wrote:

Have you tried setting locale to Spanish?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

I've tried, but it is the same. I've tried even doing a locale-gen, but it's the same. Keeps showing POSIX.

karol · 2013-12-18 23:49:49

Post your /etc/locale.conf.

Trilby · 2013-12-18 23:54:18

sanhuesoft wrote:

I completed the update, I have had to force a package.

Which one??

sanhuesoft · 2013-12-19 00:08:40

karol wrote:

Post your /etc/locale.conf.

LANG=es_CL.UTF-8

It's just like when I installed the system.

Trilby wrote:

sanhuesoft wrote:
I completed the update, I have had to force a package.
Which one??

The whole kde, I think it was the only.

karol · 2013-12-19 00:10:18

Did you reboot after running locale-gen?

sanhuesoft · 2013-12-19 00:18:02

karol wrote:

Did you reboot after running locale-gen?

Yes. Even I tried again.

cfr · 2013-12-19 00:25:03

sanhuesoft wrote:

The whole kde, I think it was the only.

There is no package "kde" so I assume you mean that you forced the re-installation of the package group kde? If so, that is an enormous number of packages. What command did you run exactly and what symptoms made you think you needed to force the installation of that much stuff?

sanhuesoft · 2013-12-19 00:34:49

cfr wrote:

sanhuesoft wrote:
The whole kde, I think it was the only.
There is no package "kde" so I assume you mean that you forced the re-installation of the package group kde? If so, that is an enormous number of packages. What command did you run exactly and what symptoms made you think you needed to force the installation of that much stuff?

As you say was the package group I reinstalled, but the problem with the locale was there before.

cfr · 2013-12-19 01:28:45

sanhuesoft wrote:

As you say was the package group I reinstalled, but the problem with the locale was there before.

I'm not suggesting it is the source of that particular problem, but it is very likely to be a source of others since you should never use --force unless you really know what you are doing and you should definitely never use it wholesale on an entire package group. When really necessary, it can be used on single packages e.g. when the developers say or when you understand precisely why it is necessary and what it will do. That's never likely to be true for all of the packages in kde. So very likely you have further broken things through doing this, even if you don't yet know the precise nature of the breakage.

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sanhuesoft · 2013-12-19 18:20:37

Anyone have an idea of what can I do?

Last edited by sanhuesoft (2013-12-19 18:20:49)

karol · 2013-12-19 18:31:11

What's the output of 'localectl'? Have you tried setting the correct locale via

localectl set-locale LANG="es_CL.UTF-8"

sanhuesoft · 2013-12-19 19:19:42

The only thing I have had to do is to reinstall the filesystem.

sudo pacman -S filesystem

And after a reboot was all right.

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