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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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What does the following give?
ls -l /usr/bin/pacman
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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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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 -vP.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
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
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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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Now that your pacman work, you should reinstall pacman to have it installed properly:
# pacman -S pacman
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