pacman -S hangs on unknown packages #356
Description
Attempting to follow skmunter’s instructions here, the output at the bottom here took place. Here's the short version:
pacman --needed -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
(worked fine)
pacman --needed -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
(worked fine)
pacman --needed -S base-devel
(hangs without output, over an hour)
pacman -S nothing
(hangs without output)
I have seen pacman -S hang under many circumstances. My system architecture may be of interest:
Windows 11
running on a virtual machine under Parallels 20.1 on an Apple Silicon Macintosh.
MacOS 14.2.1
Very recent install of MSYS2
Here's the full output:
[#######################################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [#######################################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space [#######################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/2) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs [#######################################] 100%
(2/2) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc [#######################################] 100%
ken@KENC2BE UCRT64 ~
$
pacman --needed -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
warning: mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-14.2.0-1 is up to date -- skipping
:: There are 12 members in group mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain:
:: Repository mingw64
1) mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils 2) mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git 3) mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb
4) mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-multiarch 5) mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git 6) mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git
7) mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git 8) mingw-w64-x86_64-make 9) mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf
10) mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git 11) mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git 12) mingw-w64-x86_64-winstorecompat-git
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (12) mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils-2.43.1-1 mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git-12.0.0.r369.g0d4221712-2
mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-15.2-1 mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-multiarch-15.2-1
mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git-12.0.0.r369.g0d4221712-1
mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git-12.0.0.r369.g0d4221712-1
mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git-12.0.0.r369.g0d4221712-1 mingw-w64-x86_64-make-4.4.1-3
mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.3.0-1 mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git-12.0.0.r369.g0d4221712-1
mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git-12.0.0.r369.g0d4221712-1
mingw-w64-x86_64-winstorecompat-git-12.0.0.r369.g0d4221712-1
Total Download Size: 27.50 MiB
Total Installed Size: 306.44 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 43.14 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils-2.43.1-1-any 6.0 MiB 3.50 MiB/s 00:02 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git-12.0.0.r369... 316.7 KiB 327 KiB/s 00:01 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-15.2-1-any 3.8 MiB 1304 KiB/s 00:03 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git-12.0.0.r369.g... 4.5 MiB 1416 KiB/s 00:03 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-make-4.4.1-3-any 138.5 KiB 354 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf-1~2.3.0-1-any 85.7 KiB 325 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git-12.0.... 40.1 KiB 161 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-multiarch-15.2-1-any 6.3 MiB 1794 KiB/s 00:04 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git-12.... 28.7 KiB 115 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-winstorecompat-git-12... 24.7 KiB 99.2 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git-12.0.0.r3... 6.3 MiB 1641 KiB/s 00:04 [#######################################] 100%
mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git-12.0.0.... 22.1 KiB 67.4 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
Total (12/12) 27.5 MiB 6.51 MiB/s 00:04 [#######################################] 100%
(12/12) checking keys in keyring [#######################################] 100%
(12/12) checking package integrity [#######################################] 100%
(12/12) loading package files [#######################################] 100%
(12/12) checking for file conflicts [#######################################] 100%
(12/12) checking available disk space [#######################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
( 1/12) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git [#######################################] 100%
( 2/12) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils [#######################################] 100%
( 3/12) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git [#######################################] 100%
( 4/12) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git [#######################################] 100%
( 5/12) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb [#######################################] 100%
( 6/12) installing mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-multiarch [#######################################] 100%
Optional dependencies for mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-multiarch
mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pygments: for syntax highlighting
( 7/12) installing mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git [#######################################] 100%
( 8/12) installing mingw-w64-x86_64-make [#######################################] 100%
( 9/12) installing mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf [#######################################] 100%
(10/12) installing mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git [#######################################] 100%
(11/12) upgrading mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git [#######################################] 100%
(12/12) installing mingw-w64-x86_64-winstorecompat-git [#######################################] 100%
ken@KENC2BE UCRT64 ~
$ pacman --needed -S base-devel
<hangs over an hour>
Interrupt signal received
ken@KENC2BE UCRT64 ~
$ pacman -Q base-devel
error: package 'base-devel' was not found
ken@KENC2BE UCRT64 ~
$ pacman -S nothing
<hangs indefinitely>