On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 11:06 -0700, b1 wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 01:50 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > On 30.07.2010 22:27, b1 wrote: > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Benedikt > > > > > > > > > > Use the Arch install medium and its working pacman and set the install > > dir to your system. Assume your pacman database is corrupt as well so > > discard it. Reinstall at least base and base-devel into your mounted > > system from the live medium and copy the resulting db. This will only > > make pacman recognize packages contained in base and base-devel when > > you're booting back into your system but at least pacman will be working > > again. > > > > -- Sven-Hendrik > > Hello Sven > > Thanks for your reply. I did what you suggested. I bootet the Arch linux > live cd, removed the old databse, installed base and base-devel, copied > the resulting db and rebooting. After readding users, adapting rc.conf > and another reboot, I was able to log in. > Now pacman -Syu works without errors (However has nothing to update at > the moment, so I cant really tell). > > However I also saved a complete list of packages before doing the > live-cd thing, in order to restore them now. Unfortunatelly I once again > ran into the problem. Many packages work just fine, however a > > pacman -S pulseaudio > > segfaults again, with the already known error message. Therefore I > assumed it had something to do with my package cache. I did a > > pacman -Scc > > However no success. Still getting the segfault. Is there any other place > pacman keeps information about packages like pulseaudio? Any ideas what > I could do? > > Anyone having any idea, what the problem might be? Again every hint is > very appreciated. > > Thanks > > Benedikt > > Ok, I nearly managed to restore all packages, however the following packages cause the segfault: gstreamer0.10-pulse lib32-pulseaudio libquicktime pavucontrol pavumeter pulseaudio ttf-liberation Interestingly the installation via pacman -fU URL succeeds and with pacman -fS PACKAGE fails. Is there some debugging version of pacman? For use with gdb to track down the problem. Or do I have to compile it from source and if so, what flags do I have to set? Thanks Benedikt
