On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 21:06 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > 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 Thanks for your reply, especially for the reinstallation of all packages. I wouldn't have thought of that. However unfortunatelly the problem persists. pacman -Syu produces the exactly same output as before. However based on your suggestions I ran the following commands after replacing the pacman binary... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ sudo pacman -U ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/pacman-3.4.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz pacman-3.4.0-2-x86_64 658.3K 335.7K/s 00:00:02 [######################] 100% resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): pacman-3.4.0-2 Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 2.23 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100% (1/1) upgrading pacman [######################] 100% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ b1 ~: sudo pacman -S $(pacman -Qq) warning: a52dec-0.7.4-4 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: aalib-1.4rc5-6 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: abs-2.3.4.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: acl-2.2.49-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: alacarte-0.13.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: alsa-lib-1.0.23-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: alsa-plugins-1.0.23-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: alsa-utils-1.0.23-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: apache-2.2.15-2 is up to date -- reinstalling [...] warning: zenity-2.30.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: zlib-1.2.5-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: zvbi-0.2.33-2 is up to date -- reinstalling error: segmentation fault Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault. Please submit a full bug report with --debug if appropriate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ b1 ~: sudo pacman -Syu:: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: evolution: local (2.31.2-1) is newer than extra (2.30.2-1) warning: evolution-data-server: local (2.31.2-1) is newer than extra (2.30.2.1-1) warning: gtkhtml: local (3.31.2-1) is newer than extra (3.30.2-1) error: segmentation fault Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault. Please submit a full bug report with --debug if appropriate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Benedikt
