[Solved] Shaman gives "problem while testing libalpm" & pacman broken

eyemeansit · 2008-09-09 20:41:05

I was attempting to do a system upgrade with Shaman, and it said there were 2 packages to upgrade: Gimp, from 2.46 to 2.47, and OpenOffice (to whatever the latest build is). The packages downloaded, but then Shaman got stuck on "processing dictionaries" or something like that. I let it do it's thing for 15 minutes or so, then decided it was frozen or something, so I cancelled the upgrade.

Now, whenever I try to open Shaman, I get "There was a problem while testing libalpm. Maybe another application has a lock on it." Also, pacman seems to have been disabled, because any command I issue is ineffective, meaning, when I type the command and press "enter," it goes directly back to the command prompt without doing anything.

I'm an Arch newbie, trying to like this distro, (you know I had to stretch myself to even get this installed!), but I'm stumped. Right now I'm dead in the water as far as upgrading or reinstalling anything, as far as I know.

Using 64-bit, KDEmod 4.1

thanks,
-Les-

Last edited by eyemeansit (2008-09-10 11:05:45)

Garns · 2008-09-09 20:57:23

Check /var/lib/pacman for a file named db.lck if there is one and if you are sure, you have no package manager running, delete it.

eyemeansit · 2008-09-09 23:16:07

That did it. Thanks so much! I was clueless.

Misfit138 · 2008-09-10 01:49:03

Please mark solved threads as [SOLVED]

eyemeansit · 2008-09-10 11:06:31

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#1 2008-09-09 20:41:05

[Solved] Shaman gives "problem while testing libalpm" & pacman broken

#2 2008-09-09 20:57:23

Re: [Solved] Shaman gives "problem while testing libalpm" & pacman broken

#3 2008-09-09 23:16:07

Re: [Solved] Shaman gives "problem while testing libalpm" & pacman broken

#4 2008-09-10 01:49:03

Re: [Solved] Shaman gives "problem while testing libalpm" & pacman broken

#5 2008-09-10 11:06:31

Re: [Solved] Shaman gives "problem while testing libalpm" & pacman broken

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