Pacman doesn't work [Solved]

antee · 2009-09-29 15:16:22

http://pastebin.com/m4d82e32d

That's the error(s) I get. Can't seem to figure out the problem, any ideas? Thanks.

Last edited by antee (2009-09-30 14:13:19)

Mr.Elendig · 2009-09-29 15:49:33

file /usr/bin/pacman and paste the result

antee · 2009-09-29 16:15:10

anton ~ $ file /usr/bin/pacman
/usr/bin/pacman: data

Snowman · 2009-09-30 02:29:42

looks like your pacman binary got corrupted. Try:
# pacman.static -S pacman

antee · 2009-09-30 07:02:24

anton ~ $ pacman.static -S pacman
bash: pacman.static: command not found

shining · 2009-09-30 07:23:16

What does this show ?
$ head -n 40 /usr/bin/pacman

antee · 2009-09-30 07:29:00

anton ~ $ head -n 40 /usr/bin/pacman
%DEPENDS%
emacs
ghostscript
texlive-core
texinfo
poppler

%FILENAME%
compiz-decorator-kde-0.8.2-1.pkg.tar.gz

%NAME%
compiz-decorator-kde

%VERSION%
0.8.2-1

%DESC%
Decorator of Compiz for KDE

%GROUPS%
compiz
compiz-kde

%CSIZE%
71743

%ISIZE%
212992

%MD5SUM%
22cb7023974ae1068be44a1a73b42648

%URL%
http://www.go-compiz.org/

%LICENSE%
GPL2
LGPL2
MIT

chpln · 2009-09-30 08:22:27

I would restore pacman from an existing pkg and reinstall for consistency.

tar -pxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-<version>-<arch>-pkg.tar.gz -C / usr/bin/pacman
pacman -S pacman

Hopefully /usr/bin/pacman is the only thing which was corrupted...

shining · 2009-09-30 08:37:11

Before doing that, could you save your whole bogus pacman file ? It is quite interesting

How did you manage to overwrite /usr/bin/pacman with the contents of /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/compiz-decorator-kde-0.8.2-1/desc ??

Maybe you should also check your shell history. Like history | grep pacman or history 0 | grep pacman

antee · 2009-09-30 12:56:46

anton ~ $ tar -pxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -C /usr/bin/pacman pacman -S pacman
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: pacman: Not found in archive
tar: pacman: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

shining · 2009-09-30 13:00:03

could you send me your pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz package and your /usr/bin/pacman file by mail ? (just click on my name, the gmail address is in my profile)

chpln · 2009-09-30 13:04:18

The command you've posted is incorrect. The code in my post above is in fact two commands. If possible, please paste the line below to ensure formatting is correct. If that completes successfully, you should then use 'pacman -S pacman'.

tar -pxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -C / usr/bin/pacman

Last edited by chpln (2009-09-30 13:04:43)

antee · 2009-09-30 13:08:08

anton ~ $ tar -pxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -C /usr/bin/pacman
tar: /usr/bin/pacman: Cannot chdir: Not a directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

chpln · 2009-09-30 13:10:39

Note the space between the "-C /" and "usr/bin/pacman".

The former indicates the working directory, the latter is the file to extract.

antee · 2009-09-30 13:13:24

Saw that, but that didn't work either...

anton ~ $ tar -pxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -C / usr/bin/pacman

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: usr/bin/pacman: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

chpln · 2009-09-30 13:22:26

The exact command executes without issue here. The fact it's attempting to read from stdin is most unusual.

Perhaps shining can find an anomaly with that package. Can you post the results of:

md5sum /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Last edited by chpln (2009-09-30 13:24:08)

antee · 2009-09-30 13:31:21

anton ~ $ md5sum /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
b0e6ab10e86dfd81e3393b2120052eb1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

shining · 2009-09-30 13:33:48

Both pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz package and / usr/bin/pacman are completely broken.
And both seem to contain information from pacman databases.
I still wonder how antee managed to do that, it is a big mystery

Also the package is completely corrupted, it seems to be neither a tar.gz nor a tar file. Or maybe it's a bit of everything.
But opening it in a text editor, I also found traces of a pacman database

To antee, I would suggest re-downloading the whole pacman package and extracting everything , not only usr/bin/pacman
$ tar -pxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -C /

chpln · 2009-09-30 13:35:32

OK, the package you have seems corrupted. The results here:

 md5sum /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                     
bbb90ad4c3296c1c3cea47597857c3d4  /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Please see if you can find the package on a different mirror, and attempt to extract from that. Would be interesting to know what might have caused all this strangeness...

EDIT:
Beaten

Last edited by chpln (2009-09-30 13:40:49)

Cerebral · 2009-09-30 13:41:43

I'm concerned that this problem may extend farther than just the pacman binary and package - you may want to validate other packages in your cache (md5sum and compare with a known-good source)

antee · 2009-09-30 13:44:22

shining wrote:

To antee, I would suggest re-downloading the whole pacman package and extracting everything , not only usr/bin/pacman
$ tar -pxvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -C /

Where do I find the file to replace the old one with?

chpln · 2009-09-30 13:55:17

Try this one: http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/arch … pkg.tar.gz

Cerebral wrote:

I'm concerned that this problem may extend farther than just the pacman binary and package - you may want to validate other packages in your cache (md5sum and compare with a known-good source)

I completely agree with this. Where might a full list of package checksums be found?

Last edited by chpln (2009-09-30 13:59:13)

antee · 2009-09-30 14:01:11

Thanks guys, pacman seems to be working now.

shining · 2009-09-30 14:44:40

Since you extracted pacman manually, you should now run : pacman -Sf pacman
to reinstall it properly.

Otherwise, you can check all your package integrity using info from there :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … re_Restore

$ comm -13 <(pacman -Qmq | sort) <(pacman -Qq | sort) > pkglist
$ pacman -Sw $(cat pkglist)

replace -Sw by -S if you want to reinstall everything instead of just checking integrity.

If you want to make sure your sync databases with all md5sum info are fine, check the mirror you are using and do pacman -Syy.

Finally, it might be worth checking these two commands :
$ testdb
$ pacman -Qk

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