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roybatty

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Registered: 2018-11-12

Posts: 1

Problems after Pacman crash

Hi all,

I hope someone can help with an issue I am having after running a pacman update last night. I think the previous update I ran was a week or two ago so it should not be too long between updates.

Anyway, I ran an update last night and somewhere through the process the pacman update crashed and the screen threw up a lot of random errors and the only thing I could do was to hard reboot the machine by holding down the power switch.

On reboot I noticed in my linux boot process I saw a few red [Failed] messages but I was still able to start Gnome and continue with most of my work. However now I notice that the 'mysql-workbench' application is no longer able to start and if I try to update it using pacman I see the following:

rick@archlinux  ~  sudo pacman -S mysql-workbench  1 ↵  7442  11:47:27
warning: mysql-workbench-8.0.13-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...


Packages (1) mysql-workbench-8.0.13-2


Total Installed Size: 94.90 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB


:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [########################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [########################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling mysql-workbench [########################################] 100%
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsvn_wc-1.so.0.0.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0.106.0 is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsvn_ra_local-1.so is empty, not checked.
ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0 is empty, not checked.

<A lot more of the ldconfig errors removed for brevity>

:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/4) Updating icon theme caches...
(2/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(3/4) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
(4/4) Updating the MIME type database...
/usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty


^
Failed to parse '/usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice.xml'

I am guessing I am now in a corrupted system/pacman state. Can anyone help advise how to rectify the issues?

Thanks in advance

Rick

Last edited by roybatty (2018-11-13 01:44:01)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Problems after Pacman crash

You'll have to re-install lots of stuff to correct this..

As root run pacman -Qkk 1>/dev/null and post the output.

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Trilby

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Re: Problems after Pacman crash

Please edit your first post to add [ code ] tag around terminal commands and output (see the BBCode link below the text field).  Also post the code as-is, do not add doublespacing.

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