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#1 2007-01-31 21:09:45

tct1501
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Registered: 2006-11-28
Posts: 17

Pacman does nothing after CR -> solved

Hello,

For some odd reason pacman doesnt do a thing when I hit enter. Normally "root:#pacman" would display help.

root:#pacman anything
hitting enter
nothing.

There is little info for me to tell, since I havent done anything (if any at all) strangely to do the system. Anybody?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by tct1501 (2007-02-01 09:49:07)

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#2 2007-02-01 01:31:59

mutlu_inek
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From: all over the place
Registered: 2006-11-18
Posts: 683

Re: Pacman does nothing after CR -> solved

What does the following give?

ls -l /usr/bin/pacman

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#3 2007-02-01 03:45:55

stingray
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From: Lima, Peru SA
Registered: 2006-03-24
Posts: 188

Re: Pacman does nothing after CR -> solved

You might try -v verbose mode.
#pacman -v

P.S., I'm not at my computer right now, so I don't really know if that does anything...

Last edited by stingray (2007-02-01 03:46:42)

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#4 2007-02-01 09:45:30

tct1501
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Registered: 2006-11-28
Posts: 17

Re: Pacman does nothing after CR -> solved

ls -l /usr/bin/pacman

yielded the normal output as any other command in the directory (unless it were a symlink)

You might try -v verbose mode.
#pacman -v

P.S., I'm not at my computer right now, so I don't really know if that does anything...

Nope, it didnt do a thing. We knew that already since pacman arg1 arg2 etc yields no prints or any system activity whatsoever after pressing an enter wink

However, I did manage to overcome the problem.

Copying some configfiles from the cdrom pacman package to /etc didnt work out. I wondered how I could reinstall a package without pacman, since pacman is the main installer. To me I then did the obvious and it is probably not a beautycontest winning resolve, but

tar xzvf pacman.pkg.tar.gz -C /

(and deleting the /.*) helped me out. Perhaps it's usefull to others as well.

Thanks for the replies anyways smile

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#5 2007-02-01 09:57:55

mutlu_inek
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Registered: 2006-11-18
Posts: 683

Re: Pacman does nothing after CR -> solved

I am glad that you figured it out. I asked for the ls -l output because I assumed that the pacman executable was corrupted during write access and now simply an empty file.

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#6 2007-02-01 19:29:08

Snowman
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Re: Pacman does nothing after CR -> solved

Now that your pacman work, you should reinstall pacman to have it installed properly:
# pacman -S pacman

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