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Anyone know why pacman would be freezing? I've never had problems with it until now. I'm trying to install KDE and pacman has froze about 8 times. I can CTRL-C out, then redo the command and it'll start right where it left off but it's annoying.
Thanks!
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I don't think it has frozen - there are a number of operation that can take a lot of time while installing KDE, like checkning every single file in all you packages after conflicts etc...
To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password.
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This is like.. downloading a file. I have a cable modem so it shouldn't take umm... 4 hours to download a 1meg file. It'll just sit at like 8453k.. (made that number up)
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then it's more about your crappy connection than anything else
To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password.
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try uncommenting the line in pacman.conf that has the wget commandline and see if that helps - I wouldn't suggest keeping that there, but it may work differently...
after the download completes, pacman calculates dependancies and things like that - if you have a slower computer or low RAM or no swap space, this could take a bit... especially if you're trying to grab all of kde...
let it run for like 5-10mins... see if anything changes
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or a problem with a mirror you are using or a path to that mirror upstream from you..
try a different mirror
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"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
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or a problem with a mirror you are using or a path to that mirror upstream from you..
try a different mirror
oh, good point - I think the first 0.7 CD (I still use that one... haven't bothered to DL the new version yet...) had a mirror in there first... oit.something.texas.something that didnt work...
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Apparently I was getting the "PING OF DEATH". It was causing my router to screw up and cut the internet connection for a split second. Anyways.. assuming that is the problem, thanks for everyones help.
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