[pacman-dev] [BUG] pacman freezes and eats up all the cpu

[Dan McGee]

On 4/10/07, bardo <ilbardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> In a moment of distraction during a pacman -U, while it was doing the
> conflict checking, I removed the package I was installing from another
> console. The missing package was correctly detected, but then another
> error came up, and pacman hung taking the cpu to 100%. Even ctrl-c
> couldn't stop it, I had to kill it. Here's the log:
>
> [root at paradigm ~]# LANG=en_US pacman -U
> /home/bardo/packages/amsn-extras-svn/amsn-extras-svn-8414-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
> loading package data... done.
> checking dependencies... done.
> cleaning up... done.
> (1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [####################] 100%
> error: failed to commit transaction (cannot open package file)
> error: failed to release transaction (could not commit transaction)
>
>
> [1]+  Stopped                 LANG=en_US pacman -U
> /home/bardo/packages/amsn-extras-svn/amsn-extras-svn-8414-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
> [root at paradigm ~]#

How did you get pacman to run twice without it warning about an
existing lock file?

-Dan