631754 – sys-apps/pacman - error: failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or read directory: /var/lib/pacman/)

Bug 631754 - sys-apps/pacman - error: failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or read directory: /var/lib/pacman/)

Summary: sys-apps/pacman - error: failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Nils Freydank

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Reported:	2017-09-22 19:20 UTC by tonemgub
Modified:	2017-10-27 15:57 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description tonemgub 2017-09-22 19:20:38 UTC

The package compiles, but there appears to be a bug. The database cannot be initialized, so it's impossible to use pacman.

error: failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or read directory: /var/lib/pacman/)

Comment 1 Nils Freydank 2017-09-30 10:51:45 UTC

Hi, please create /var/chroot/archlinux (e.g. via mkdir) as a workaround.

This will be fixed in -r1, but I’ll wait with that until I have another patch upstream (work in progress).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2017-10-27 15:57:49 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c3cbbadd99e9e4cc8014b99d74fe76ab943bf0bb

commit c3cbbadd99e9e4cc8014b99d74fe76ab943bf0bb
Author:     Nils Freydank <holgersson@posteo.de>
AuthorDate: 2017-10-27 15:56:06 +0000
Commit:     Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2017-10-27 15:57:38 +0000

    sys-apps/pacman: Rev bump to fix CVE-2016-5434 (bug #585940)
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/633742
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/631754
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.11, Repoman-2.3.3
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>

 .../pacman/files/pacman-5.0.2-CVE-2016-5434.patch  | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++
 sys-apps/pacman/metadata.xml                       |   3 +
 sys-apps/pacman/pacman-5.0.2-r1.ebuild             | 112 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 251 insertions(+)