[Solved] Pacman & Wicd Issues

tadevokle · 2011-03-24 16:17:47

Hello,

I recently did a system upgrade (pacman -Syu), which appears to have messed with my system.

I have the following two problems

The Pacman-Issue:

Whenever I try searching or downloading a file via pacman, I receive the following message.

error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community-testing.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community-testing.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/unsupported.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/unsupported.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/unstable.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/unstable.db'
error: target not found: <insert random program name here>

Wicd:

Before the system upgrade, I could manage my network connectivity thorugh the wicd applet (gui thingy), but after the update the applet seems to have disappeared (it's neither listed in the applications, nor starts on log-in). As wicd still manages to get me connected to my previously chosen wi-fi network, I know that wicd is still installed in my system. How can I get my gui-thingy working again?

Thanks in advance, for helping me out.

Last edited by tadevokle (2011-03-24 17:25:47)

SS4 · 2011-03-24 16:25:31

tadevokle wrote:

Hello,
I recently did a system upgrade (pacman -Syu), which appears to have messed with my system.
I have the following two problems
The Pacman-Issue:
Whenever I try searching or downloading a file via pacman, I receive the following message.
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community-testing.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community-testing.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/unsupported.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/unsupported.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/unstable.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/unstable.db'
error: target not found: <insert random program name here>
Wicd:
Before the system upgrade, I could manage my network connectivity thorugh the wicd applet (gui thingy), but after the update the applet seems to have disappeared (it's neither listed in the applications, nor starts on log-in). As wicd still manages to get me connected to my previously chosen wi-fi network, I know that wicd is still installed in my system. How can I get my gui-thingy working again?
Thanks in advance, for helping me out.

Wicd has been split into wicd and wicd-gtk - see this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115392

As for pacman did you update today?

tadevokle · 2011-03-24 16:36:04

Yes, did it just a couple of minutes ago.

Thanks for caring

SS4 · 2011-03-24 16:37:53

I suspect it's related to the new pacman, did you remember to run

pacman-db-upgrade

after upgrading pacman?

As for wicd

pacman -S wicd-gtk

should solve your issues (you can use the ncurses interface if you need it to get online)

Last edited by SS4 (2011-03-24 16:38:53)

tadevokle · 2011-03-24 16:41:27

Yes, I did run it.

(The first error-message I got was basically the one I posted here + "use the pacman-db-upgrade command")

tadevokle · 2011-03-24 16:47:46

Btw. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23343 this might be relevant, but truth to be told I don't know what to make of it.

Last edited by tadevokle (2011-03-24 16:49:37)

SS4 · 2011-03-24 17:07:18

Allan put a patch to fix that, unfortunately I am not familiar with how to apply patches.

thebopshoobop · 2011-03-24 17:11:21

Have you checked to see if your db files exist? I seem to be having the same problem. After upgading pacman (and running pacman-db-upgrade), there are no db files in /var/lib/pacman/sync/; just the repo directories. Maybe pacman-db-upgrade removed them?

I am going to try to reinstall pacman manually based on info from this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95007
I'll report back.

[edit; clarity]

Last edited by thebopshoobop (2011-03-24 17:28:17)

tadevokle · 2011-03-24 17:23:42

thebopshoobop wrote:

Have you checked to see if your db files exist? I seem to be having the same problem. After upgading pacman (and running pacman-db-upgrade), there are no db files in /var/lib/pacman/sync/; just the repo directories. Maybe pacman-db-upgrade removed them?
I am going to try to reinstall pacman manually based on info from this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95007
I'll report back.
[edit; clarity]

That seemed to do the trick on my case.

I had to change the mirror variable to ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux though. [Reinstalling it directly with wget/<bla-blub>..., had no visible effect on my problem.]

Last edited by tadevokle (2011-03-24 17:24:21)

thebopshoobop · 2011-03-24 17:30:39

I tried reinstalling as per the thread above, but got nowhere. However, a simple 'pacman -Syy' did the trick.

rwd · 2011-03-24 19:16:38

thebopshoobop wrote:

I tried reinstalling as per the thread above, but got nowhere. However, a simple 'pacman -Syy' did the trick.

thanks!

B.t.w.:while bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23343 has the same error messages it is caused by something else, namely permissions, while In this case the 'sync' folder is missing entirely.

Last edited by rwd (2011-03-24 19:19:01)

PhotonX · 2011-03-25 07:45:56

thebopshoobop wrote:

I tried reinstalling as per the thread above, but got nowhere. However, a simple 'pacman -Syy' did the trick.

Thanks, worked out in my case, too!

dobbs · 2011-03-25 18:30:20

Thanks for the tips. These solved my problems....

pacman-db-upgrade
pacman -S wicd-gtk

.....:-)

pe7er · 2012-03-29 11:36:56

I had a similar problem: error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db'

Somewhere else I found that I had to synchronize the packaging database with:

pacman -Syy

This created the necessary /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db file.

After that I updated pacman with

pacman -S pacman

Last edited by pe7er (2012-03-29 11:38:49)

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