Pacman Issue

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 13:22:52

Hello. I recently ran Pacman -Syy, and it locked up So I had to force quit it.
Well Ever since then I cant run pacman.
Whenever i output any pacman command it returns:
bash: /usr/bin/pacman: cannot execute binary file
I have tried recompiling it but the issue keeps happening.
Is there a way to uninstall pacman and just recompile it in?
Or has anyone experienced this issue and have a fix?
My cd/drive is broke, so there is no way i can do a fresh install of arch.

Last edited by aph3xlol (2010-12-01 13:23:46)

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 13:35:21

maybe you should look for a lock file, which needs to be removed.

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 13:37:15

Do you know where this is located?

Allan · 2010-12-01 13:39:37

what does "file /usr/bin/pacman" say?

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 13:40:47

look for pacman.lock. mybe you can run locate to find it...else...

is pacman still in your path? try

which pacman

, have a look whether the ugo permissions are set correctly.
Have you rebooted in between?

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 13:50:08

Allan wrote:

what does "file /usr/bin/pacman" say?

/usr/bin/pacman: data

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 13:51:16

should look like

/usr/bin/pacman: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped

?

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 13:55:02

linux-ka wrote:

look for pacman.lock. mybe you can run locate to find it...else...
is pacman still in your path? try
which pacman
, have a look whether the ugo permissions are set correctly.
Have you rebooted in between?

[xyn@CellarDoor ~'$ which pacman
/usr/bin/pacman

yes i have

Last edited by aph3xlol (2010-12-01 13:55:36)

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 13:57:24

[xyn@CellarDoor ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/pacman
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 70724 Sep 3 21:12 /usr/bin/pacman

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 13:59:40

maybe you can fix this via unpacking the pkg.tar.gz from pacman and copying the binary to its place...but that's not the nice way...finally you could reinstalling pacman with pacman....

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 14:00:18

I cant reinstall it with pacman. I cant run any command with pacman.

Last edited by aph3xlol (2010-12-01 14:00:48)

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 14:01:16

but how can you reinstall with pacman when you cannot execute the binary?

Allan · 2010-12-01 14:02:25

hmmm... looks like a corrupted file...

As suggested, replace it with a copy from the pacman package tarball. I'd be concerned what other files have had a similar treatment.

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 14:04:04

How would I do this?

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 14:22:14

untar the tarball, maybe get a new one and copy it to any place you need to...

tar xf <your pacman tarball> 
cp some/pacman/folder/pacman /to/your/wished/patch

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 14:30:17

so.
tar xf pacman-3.4.1
cp pacman-3.4.1 /usr/bin/pacman
?

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 16:07:14

sry for asking you, but how long are running on linux?

aph3xlol · 2010-12-01 16:24:22

6 months.

linux-ka · 2010-12-01 17:38:18

your tarball is maybe named pacman-3.4.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, thus unpacking will give you folders named var,usr and etc inlcuding the pacman-3.4.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz content.

finally you have to copy the needed binary of this tarball to its right place.

cp ./usr/bin/pacman /usr/bin/pacman

Of cause you'll need to work as root to copy the binary.

Hope this helps...

taavi · 2010-12-02 09:46:51

Maybe this helps? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95007

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