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zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

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[SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

I can update my system fine with pacman, and yaourt. If I try to use powerpill or bauerbill I just get bunch of warning on local packages being ahead of repo versions, and an error on one, zsh-syntax-highlighting, the community packages.

error: could not parse package description file 'zsh-syntax-highlighting-0.4.1-1/desc' 
from db 'community'

I tried running pacman -Syy through all 4 applications, and uninstalling zsh-syntax-highlighting, powerpill and bauerbill, with no luck so far. When I reinstalled them the issue just came back.

Anyone have any ideas?

Last edited by zerophase (2016-06-12 17:12:40)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

What's in that file?

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 229

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

I don't know. It's just theming for zsh. I can't find /desc with locate.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

It would be in /var/lib/pacman/local/zsh-syntax-highlighting-0.4.1-1/

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 229

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

It doesn't show up there.

I do see it showing up in the abs folder.  Go ahead an delete it from there?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

There's no desc file in that dir? And reinstalling zsh-syntax-highlighting doesn't create it?

The ABS should be irrelevant here.

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 229

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

Yeah, that desc file doesn’t exist. And reinstalling doesn't create it. Isn't desc a file in the repo?

Last edited by zerophase (2016-06-11 13:50:07)

archdanb

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Registered: 2016-06-12

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

I'm getting the same error.
Is this something to do with /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db ?

cat /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db | gunzip - 1>/dev/null
  gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 229

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

I'm getting the same error.
Is this something to do with /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db ?

cat /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db | gunzip - 1>/dev/null
  gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

Does that command you put in fix the issue?

Ziusudra

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Registered: 2014-04-19

Posts: 120

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

I was having this issue but changing my default mirror fixed it.

Edit: well, not this exact issue as I don't use powerpill or bauerbill but i was getting the error

error: could not parse package description file 'zsh-syntax-highlighting-0.4.1-1/desc' from db 'community'

and that was solved by changing mirrors.

Last edited by Ziusudra (2016-06-12 11:11:42)

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 229

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

Fixed it just had to update all of the rsync servers in use. Odd considering all of the old rsync servers were considered up to date.

archdanb

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Registered: 2016-06-12

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED]powerpill and bauerbill cannot update.

Sorry for not replying.
I did a: pacman -Syy to re-sync the database files just now and no longer get this issue.
Thanks