On 30.07.2010 21:00, b1 wrote: > Hey alltogether > > Unfortunatelly I ran into some really strange pacman problem. While > performing an normal system update, my computer froze (due to some > incorrect overclocking settings). After correcting the settings and > rebooting, I tried to run the Upgrade again, and got this (after > manually removing the lock file): > > error: segmentation fault > Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault. > Please submit a full bug report with --debug if appropriate. > > Afterwards I ran the pacman with --debug switch. Since the ouptut is > rather long, I have attached it to the end of the mail. > > Unfortunatelly, gdb wasn't very helpfull, just showing > 0x00007ffff78d8c96 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > If any one has any idea of how to replace the broken pacman with a new > pacman or of how to fix this issue, I would greatly appreciate to hear > from you. > > Thanks in advance > > Benedikt > You should try to manually get the package from the ftp, unpack it and overwrite the pacman binary manually. Then perform a full system reinstallation using pacman -Sy $(pacman -Qq) since you cannot know whether other binaries are also affected. -- Sven-Hendrik
