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I tried to do a pacman -Syy this morning. I had some problem with the network, which as since resolved itself, but now I cannot update my system as I get the following error:
error: GPGME error: No dataWhen I looked at the file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db.sig, I see it contains the following:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
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<title>300 Multiple Choices</title>
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<h1>Multiple Choices</h1>
The document name you requested (<code>/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db.sig</code>) could not be found on this server.
However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.<p>Available documents:
<ul>
<li><a href="/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.files.tar.gz">/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.files.tar.gz</a> (common basename)
<li><a href="/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.files.tar.gz.old">/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.files.tar.gz.old</a> (common basename)
<li><a href="/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz">/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz</a> (common basename)
<li><a href="/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.files">/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.files</a> (common basename)
<li><a href="/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.abs.tar.gz">/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.abs.tar.gz</a> (common basename)
<li><a href="/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz.old">/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz.old</a> (common basename)
<li><a href="/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db">/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db</a> (common basename)
</ul>
</body></html>The extra.db.sig and community.db.sig files are similar. It appears to me that these files got overwritten by some html. I've looked at several mirrors, but I can't find any core.db.sig files.
Does anyone know the best protocol to recover my system when I don't have valid *.sig files?
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AFAIK the official repos' package databases are not signed.
Remove these sig files and try again.
Post your pacman.conf.
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Well, I removed the files and did -Sy again. Core hadn't changed, but new extra and community db's were downloaded and similar extra.db.sig and community.db.sig files re-appeared in /var/lib/pacman/sync.
My pacman.conf contains:
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = OptionalIf I do a 'pacman -Qu', it fails due to the invalid .sig files. After I removed extra.db.sig and community.db.sig, pacman -Qu was successful.
So why is my pacman trying to download those files?
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Can you post the whole pacman.conf?
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There's really nothing else in there. Here's my pacman.conf (with comments removed). It's basically just the defaults.
[options]
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
Architecture = auto
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SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrors
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrors
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorsThe /etc/pacman.d/mirrors is a file I generate from /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist that contains just my preferred mirror. It currently contains just one line:
Server = http://mirrors.aggregate.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$archOffline
The mirror is "trying to be clever". https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36815
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That's really interesting. I have a script that selects an appropriate mirror each day, so I've probably never used mirrors.aggregate.org before.
Appearently, pacman asks for a .sig file for each file it retreives, including the *.db files.
I'll add aggregate.org to my .ignore file.
Thanks.
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