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Could someone please explain this output to me:
$ ls -l /var/lib/pacman/local/syslog-ng-3.0.3-1/
ls: cannot access /var/lib/pacman/local/syslog-ng-3.0.3-1/desc: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /var/lib/pacman/local/syslog-ng-3.0.3-1/depends: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /var/lib/pacman/local/syslog-ng-3.0.3-1/files: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /var/lib/pacman/local/syslog-ng-3.0.3-1/install: Permission denied
total 0
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? depends
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? desc
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? files
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? install
It's the same for 4 pacakge subdir in /var/lib/pacman/local/*:
/var/lib/pacman/local/sdparm-1.03-2/
/var/lib/pacman/local/syslog-ng-3.0.3-1/
/var/lib/pacman/local/syslog-ng-3.0.3-1/
/var/lib/pacman/local/usbutils-0.84-1/
Unfortunately this means some package operations give permission denied as well.
Thanks
Last edited by webframp (2009-07-29 23:05:25)
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Did you run out of space at all? Reinstalling those packages should fix the issue.
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I think it may be a more involved filesystem issue. I have plenty of space.
/dev/sda5 7.5G 286M 7.2G 4% /var
attempting to remove/reinstall the packages also gives errors.
lots of
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/sdparm-1.03-2/depends: Permission denied
then
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/sdparm-1.03-2/files: No such file or directory
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
sdparm: /usr/bin/sdparm exists in filesystem
sdparm: /usr/share/licenses/sdparm/COPYING exists in filesystem
sdparm: /usr/share/man/man8/sdparm.8.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
even pacman -Sf gives the above errors.
I'm stumped, but I'm leaning towards file system corruption at this point.
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Ive got such an ??? type issue in my filesystem recently (reiserfs), but temproraily i moved this to another position of my sytem where it doesn't bother me, and when i was so much time, i've rebuild the filesystem from tree.
It was a such a hard issue with my filesystem
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Turns out it was filesystem related. even though the filesystem would mount and was mostly readable, jfs_fsck reported issues. I copied everything to a temp location with 'cp -a', formatted the device, copied everything back and reinstalled the few packages with missing pacman db entries. no issues now.
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