Hello. I need some help here. I chose not to upgrade to Xorg7 for a long time. Finally today I went for it. I went to init 3 and did a pacman -Syu. I got a conflict error as outlined in the wiki, so I did what it said: removed (-Rd xorg) and installed again (-S xorg). Everything seemed to turn out fine. I went into xorg.conf and changed my paths, but that was about all I did there for now.
The I ran pacman again. It downloaded about 570 MB of packages. Actually in the middle I ran out of space and had to cancel things and remove some stuff---this involved uninstalling some big packages, like openoffice-base, kdedevelop, and kdeedu. I restarted the process and pacman completed the downloads. When it got to the checking integrity stage, it told me that cmake and liboil were corrupt. I removed them from the cache and redownloaded them from different mirrors, with the same result. So I ran abs and built the two packages myself and installed them via pacman -U for cmake and pacman -A for liboil, since I didn't have that one installed before. I ran pacman -Syu again, and nothing else needed to be downloaded, and the integrity check gave a 'done'. Then I got the infamous 'error: something has gone horribly wrong'. I tried -Syu again, but to no avail. I rebooted and tried again but got the same result. I remember getting this error before, but am not sure what I did about it. I think I may have installed the packages one at a time until I got to the one that was problematic, but can't recall what I did after that to fix things. Unfortunately, I since I have 570 MB of packages, installing them one at a time is not feasible. I thought about writing a script to do the job until I got to the problem package, but I don't know what order I should be installing all these---does it matter? By the way, since my Xorg configuration was kind of still-born (none of those extra libs got installed), X didn't actually start up when I reboot. So I dusted off my Windows, and that's where I am writing you from right now. Can anyone help me? I'd rather not have to download all these packages again, just to find the same error. What exactly does this cryptic error message mean? Cheers. -FJ PS: Oh, I almost forgot, I'm still getting that 'udev conflicts with hotplug. Remove hotplug?' message, long since I removed hotplug, when that big udev update happened quite some time ago. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
