[arch-general] pacman segfault problem

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

 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