pacman -Syu hangs

CuleX · 2007-09-15 05:31:44

Hello

I'm very happy with Arch Linux, but today, the first update since three weeks, pacman hangs for five minutes and counting. No CPU usage or so. Just hangs in my ps -ef.

Is this normal?

tlaloc · 2007-09-15 06:06:35

At the moment - yes:
http://www.archlinux.org/news/344/

tomk · 2007-09-15 08:17:59

Actually, no - not even at the moment. Our repo reorganisation is proceeding in the background, but that does not cause pacman to hang - it simply means that the mirrors are not syncing. You should still get output from pacman.

Culex - please do pacman -Syu --debug, paste the output in some pastebin e.g. pastebin.archlinux.org, and post the link here.

CuleX · 2007-09-15 12:08:53

Okaay... That's a BAD thing.

http://pastebin.archlinux.org/14566

that's not good. Nothing was found in sync.

Last edited by CuleX (2007-09-15 15:22:04)

shining · 2007-09-15 12:41:14

CuleX wrote:

Okaay... That's a BAD thing.
<partial output>
that's not good. Nothing was found in sync.

why didnt you do as tomk said?

CuleX · 2007-09-15 15:22:41

shining wrote:

CuleX wrote:
Okaay... That's a BAD thing.
<partial output>
that's not good. Nothing was found in sync.
why didnt you do as tomk said?

Forgot it. I'm usually not using these paste-bins. They're for me harder to read.

Anyway, edited.

Actually, it's working now.

Last edited by CuleX (2007-09-15 15:23:57)

occam · 2008-06-08 08:00:08

I have a Thinkpad T22, which I use infrequently. Now I need to get a WiFi PCcard working (Netgear 511v2 with the Marwell chipset - boo) so I did a pacman -Suy to get the latest and greatest software. The upgrade was some 500MB and installation size over 1GB!
However, the pacman -Suy just killed the computer when checking the packages (nothing moved, all keys dead etc) - so I tried again. This time it came through quite a number of package checks, but then it died again. Since I was doing other work, I do not know exactly when, but that seems to vary. After this second attempt the Thinkpad does not boot properly any more.
My question is: is there a limit for upgrade installation size (maybe RAM dependent)?
Also, if someone has any advice for me I would be grateful.

tigrmesh · 2008-06-08 19:49:50

Try this: do a
pacman -Sy

first. Then pacman -S the kernel (kernel26) and pacman *only*. fix any configuration file changes (.pacnew files), and reboot.

Then so
Pacman -Su
for the rest.

Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-06-08 19:50:53)

occam · 2008-06-08 21:49:58

Thanks, I'll try that if the re-installation does not behave. Maybe a warning against "too great" updates, and these steps, should be included in the pacman manual and -Sh help text.

17.poison · 2010-08-26 12:35:07

i have the same problem,
pacman hangs and for me, it dosent even quit when i press ctrl + c.....
i have send kill signal to terminate.

Vermillion · 2010-08-26 12:39:04

This topic is 2 years old...

But i think you could also post us the output of the following command:

pacman -Syu --debug

Inxsible · 2010-08-26 15:14:54

Closing....

.:B:. · 2010-08-26 15:15:54

Come on guys, open a new topic if you need help. This topic is *old*.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27

Edit: Dammit you Inxsible!

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