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Netcat

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Registered: 2007-01-16

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Pacman all odd after a recent -Syu

Yes, pacman is acting all strange after I recently updated all packages. Now, every time I run pacman I get this:

error: /var/lib/pacman/local/kernel26-2.6.19.2-1/desc: No such file or directory

I tried creating the dir and but then it complains about 'depends' in the same directory. After creating that one, pacman seems to stop responding when trying to download something...

Also, it seems pacman is unaware of already installed packages as it wants to install a lot of stuff I already have.

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Pacman all odd after a recent -Syu

It sounds like you probably nuked your local db.  Did you remove anything in /var/lib/pacman/local ?

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Netcat

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Registered: 2007-01-16

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Re: Pacman all odd after a recent -Syu

It sounds like you probably nuked your local db.  Did you remove anything in /var/lib/pacman/local ?

Hmm, not that I know of. I remember removing /tmp/pacman.lck thought, could that have caused anything like this?

byte

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Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: Pacman all odd after a recent -Syu

Remove all dirs in /var/lib/pacman/ except local/ and run pacman -Sy again.

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Netcat

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Re: Pacman all odd after a recent -Syu

Remove all dirs in /var/lib/pacman/ except local/ and run pacman -Sy again.

Didn't really do anything.

lilsirecho

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Re: Pacman all odd after a recent -Syu

Had a similar case which required me to ...pacman -Scc and rebuild the sync base because the db got corrupted.

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Netcat

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Re: Pacman all odd after a recent -Syu

Had a similar case which required me to ...pacman -Scc and rebuild the sync base because the db got corrupted.

Doesn't seem to work either, unless I'm doing something wrong.
pacman -Scc and then
pacman -Sy