pacman -R totem -> kernel panic

grandmouse · 2005-06-25 15:31:13

I can not install totem-xine because totem must be removed which causes kernel panic. Also gnome-media must be ignored. How can I remove totem, gnome-media or any other package without pacman ? Is there a way to edit the pacman database ?

xerxes2 · 2005-06-25 22:27:19

hello,

in that case you have to manually remove the files listed in /var/lib/pacman/local/totem/files and the totem dir itself,

edit: maybe i should say also that pacmans "database" is just ascii textfiles, there is no real database in use even though it has been dicussed if it should be implemented,

grandmouse · 2005-06-26 00:53:27

Thanks alot

I did not delete but overwrite with pacman -Sf totem-xine . Turned out no diff in files lists. Same treatment for gnome-media still freezes though.
I must be the only one to have corrupted packages, segfaults and kernel panics with pacman.

Gullible Jones · 2005-06-26 02:01:52

Maybe you need to reinstall Archlinux... :shock: Jesus, I can't imagine how uninstalling a media player would cause kernel panic. There's gotta be something seriously screwy going on there...

JGC · 2005-06-26 16:14:46

What kind of trace do you get? I've had XFS oopses on a server once, running a filesystem check helped out.

T-Dawg · 2005-06-26 17:16:16

have you tried to force remove that program, then reinstall the kernel?

If you use reiserfs, you can boot into a live cd and do a reiserfsck on that partiton to check for errors.

grandmouse · 2005-06-27 08:32:21

I see no trace and dont know how to get. Anyway just reiserfscked and saw bad leafs and nodes on wrong levels. JGC you prefer XFS ? I also ponder migrating to Reiser4.

phrakture · 2005-06-27 14:57:00

Gullible Jones wrote:

Maybe you need to reinstall Archlinux... :shock: Jesus, I can't imagine how uninstalling a media player would cause kernel panic. There's gotta be something seriously screwy going on there...

I mentioned this to Xentac, and he explained it pretty well - the only way you're going to get a kernel panic is a software->hardware communication problem... in this case, the segfault most likely has to do with the filesystem (removing a file = segfault)

what filesystem is your partition on?

Gullible Jones · 2005-06-27 15:37:58

He said it's on ReiserFS, and that reisersck revealed some pretty big problems.

phrakture · 2005-06-27 15:57:38

bada bing!

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pacman -R totem -> kernel panic

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