pacman: "something has gone horribly wrong"

janwil · 2006-02-25 13:29:47

Hi all,

So I started The Big Xorg Upgrade on my laptop. First I removed xorg (to get around the bitstream fonts conflict) and started pacman -Syu. During the package downloads I noticed that I still use some old configuration where the downloads come from ftp.nethat.com , which is very far from me, whereas now I have a much closer mirror ftp.estpak.ee . So I killed pacman and wget, corrected pacman.conf, and rerun pacman -Syu. The downloads were finished nicely, but then I got the following message:

checking package integrity...done
error: something has gone horribly wrong

I have never seen such an error before, and probably I should not have seen it at all. But still I did:) So can anyone tell me what it is about and under which conditions is it shown? Should I file a bug report?

Jan

Edit: I cleared the package cache, downloaded all the packages from the same source and I still get the same message. So it was not a problem caused by the interrupted upgrade (and in fact I have done interrupted upgrades in the past with no problems). Any ideas and/or explanations are greatly welcome.

Jan

Cerebral · 2006-02-25 14:28:12

Hm... try upgrading xorg first, maybe?

pacman -S xorg

then the full update?

On an unhelpful note: that's possibly the scariest error message I've ever seen.

janwil · 2006-02-25 15:18:14

Cerebral wrote:

Hm... try upgrading xorg first, maybe?
pacman -S xorg
then the full update?

Tried that and the message is still the same.

Cerebral wrote:

On an unhelpful note: that's possibly the scariest error message I've ever seen.

Yeah, Arch is not for cowards:D

But the mystery still stays ... any comments from the developers?

Jan

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-25 15:55:56

you should report at flyspray / butraq. Devs hardly use this forum.

janwil · 2006-02-25 16:00:52

Moo-Crumpus wrote:

you should report at flyspray / butraq. Devs hardly use this forum.

Yes, I just did it ... I wonder whether it is OK to start upgrading my system package by package or should I retain its condition for possible debugging questions?

Jan,
will probably try to repair the system anyway, since needs it running

janwil · 2006-02-25 17:02:56

I located the suspect. Among packages to be upgraded there is avahi which conflicts with nss-mdns. I am prompted to remove nss-mdns and after saying "Y" I get the "something has gone horribly wrong" error. This was reproduced when doing

pacman -S avahi

only.

Jan

Cerebral · 2006-02-25 17:40:34

jan - update nss-mdns first, then try again

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-25 17:41:58

what a useless error message. Should read
"Something has gone horribly wrong. Donate!"

janwil · 2006-02-25 18:36:28

Cerebral wrote:

jan - update nss-mdns first, then try again

Yup, that finally worked. Thanx!

But pacman was very confusing in its messages anyway ...

Jan

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