Different problems with pacman and the system in general.

r0b0t · 2010-07-24 12:20:26

Hi ,

Here my problems:

Problem 1
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The system is outdated and when I pacman -Syyuu pacman says that he system is up-to-date, (the system was 2-3 month offline so I'm score there are packages to update)

Problem 2
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When I try to install some packages hi gives me this error:
after
checking package integrity...
[really long list]

notification-daemon: /usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/notification-daemon.mo exists in filesystem
notification-daemon: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/notification-daemon.mo exists in filesystem
notification-daemon: /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/notification-daemon.mo exists in filesystem
notification-daemon: /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/notification-daemon.mo exists in filesystem
notification-daemon: /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/notification-daemon.mo exists in filesystem
notification-daemon: /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/notification-daemon.mo exists in filesystem
notification-daemon: /usr/share/notification-daemon/notification-properties.glade exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

For installing I have to use --force.

When I query already installed packages hi says:

pacman -Q wireshark
error: package "wireshark" not found

The same thing happens when trying to remove any package

pacman -R wireshark
error: 'wireshark': could not find or read package

but in reality the package is installed:

locate wireshark
/root/.wireshark
/root/.wireshark/cfilters
/root/.wireshark/recent
/root/.wireshark/recent_common
/usr/bin/wireshark
/usr/lib/libwireshark.so
/usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0
/usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/wireshark
/usr/lib/wireshark/plugins
/usr/lib/wireshark/plugins/1.2.8
/usr/lib/wireshark/plugins/1.2.8/asn1.so

Problem 3
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And another thing, if I want to install any packages Hi just download all the requisites ignoring that they are already installed on the system.

Last strange "thing" when I give any command as user [no problem when I am root] this line appears on the screen

echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"

Other info:
uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 5 21:03:38 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

pacman -V

 .--.                  Pacman v3.4.0 - libalpm v5.0.0
/ _.-' .-.  .-.  .-.   Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Pacman Development Team
\  '-. '-'  '-'  '-'   Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
 '--'
                       This program may be freely redistributed under
                       the terms of the GNU General Public License.

What should I do?

Please don't paste other threads , I read them all, how to fix this is not clear to me.

Last edited by r0b0t (2010-07-24 12:21:55)

karol · 2010-07-24 12:44:45

Try 'pacman -Syy' first. It should sync OK. If not, maybe your pacman db is not quite all right.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-24 12:50:21)

Allan · 2010-07-24 13:03:42

You probably need to change mirror.

r0b0t · 2010-07-24 13:20:41

Yes I changed the mirror, but the problem is still present, I have cleared the cache, re-sync and the problem is still there.

hokasch · 2010-07-24 13:31:32

How did you update the kernel and pacman?
What about

pacman -Ql /usr/bin/wireshark

and

pacman -Q

Allan · 2010-07-24 13:32:08

Looks like you have lost some or all of your /var/lib/pacman/local folder so pacman has no idea what is installed on your system.

karol · 2010-07-24 13:34:17

Try to manually download and install a package. If pacman can find and remove it, you probably need to rebuild your /var/lib/pacman/local

r0b0t · 2010-07-24 14:01:30

Hi, I update the kernel and pacman with --force, and Allan , your right, the /var/lib/pacman/local is semi-empty, how to rebuild the local database?

r0b0t · 2010-07-24 15:16:59

Any Idea on how to rebuild pacman database or I should reinstall the hole system?

hokasch · 2010-07-24 16:00:52

if you still have rather complete pacman logs:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … l_database

r0b0t · 2010-07-24 17:46:28

I'm trying the full reinstall, can you help me with this?
pacman -Sf --nodeps --needed < pkglist
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)
How to make this redirect work :S

Last edited by r0b0t (2010-07-24 17:51:04)

loafer · 2010-07-24 17:50:52

Is the pkglist file you created saved in the correct location (i.e your home dir)? Also, check pkglist itself and make sure it contains a list of packages rather than being empty or corrupted somehow.

Last edited by loafer (2010-07-24 17:51:33)

r0b0t · 2010-07-24 17:52:59

Yes yes, it contains the correct package list, but the command above is not working, I don't know why the redirect fails ... ?

hokasch · 2010-07-24 17:56:34

You could try pacman -S $(< pkglist)

loafer · 2010-07-24 18:00:45

hokasch wrote:

You could try pacman -S $(< pkglist)

That would seem to be the solution. Wiki needs updating by the look of it.

r0b0t · 2010-07-24 19:34:58

Yes fixed, only that the script on the wiki are almost all buggy.
Thanks for the great support

loafer · 2010-07-24 19:55:16

I just logged on to update the wiki and it's already done. Great work!

r0b0t · 2010-09-04 12:03:43

PS:
if somebody have the same problem, and then after many days pacman still say "your system is up-to-date" than change your repo at /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and than try again, it will work

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Different problems with pacman and the system in general.

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