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brendan

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From: UK

Registered: 2009-05-16

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Pacman Hangs and fills the cache dir

Managed to install Arch on my quad core desktop.

Trying to install gnome and kde/kdeMOD has me really stumped.

Till before using yaourt to unsuccesfully installing catalyst - I am gonna try xf86-xorg-ati on my 4850 before trying again. it was working all great.

Now pacman just fills its entire cache dir (27GB) in about 4 minutes. It just hangs and stops downloading a package in the big group listing and then complains that it has no space left.

What is this?? I'm using XFS on an up to date install and have tried locating the cache dir on another JFS partition with 150GB free but still did the same thing.

Whats up?

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: Pacman Hangs and fills the cache dir

Hi, there is a very similar thread here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81134

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mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: Pacman Hangs and fills the cache dir

Is it the same problem as this post? http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81134

brendan

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From: UK

Registered: 2009-05-16

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Re: Pacman Hangs and fills the cache dir

Yes but the patched pacman doesn't seem to install on my brand new system because of libdownload>=1.3

I've tried different mirrors but it all fails for large package lists in the end.

Garns

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 239

Re: Pacman Hangs and fills the cache dir

Yes but the patched pacman doesn't seem to install on my brand new system because of libdownload>=1.3

Not sure which version you are referring to, but as Xavier said in the other thread, it shouldn't. As a different workaround you could switch from the internal download to curl or wget, look for XferCommand in pacman.conf.