random bits broken after update [SOLVED]

DrMikeDuke · 2008-07-14 09:54:13

Hello all!

This morning at about 10AM (GMT+3) I sync'd with "pacman -Syu" as I usualy do, however something rather bad (read - broken) has happened. Being fairly new to Arch I'm not quite sure what to make of it all so I shall do my best to explain:

After I had upgraded I decided it'd be rather jolly to watch something, so i loaded mplayer, only to be greeted instead with:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb5.so.22: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

No problem I thought, perhaps something got broken in the update? So i try to uninstall (R ) and reinstall (S ) mplayer.
Thats when things went from bad to worse as I attempted to install mplayer again:

bash-3.2# pacman -S mplayer
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra//foomatic-filters-3.0_20080420-1/depends: No such file or directory
Warning: mplayer-svn provides mplayer
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra//foomatic-filters-3.0_20080420-1/depends: No such file or directory
error: cannot resolve "ttf-bitstream-vera", a dependency of "mplayer-svn"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: mplayer-svn: requires ttf-bitstream-vera
bash-3.2#

Something to do with foomatic I thought... ....So I attempt that:

bash-3.2# pacman -S foomatic-filters
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra//foomatic-filters-3.0_20080420-1/depends: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra//foomatic-filters-3.0_20080420-1/depends: No such file or directory
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra//foomatic-filters-3.0_20080420-1/depends: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra//foomatic-filters-3.0_20080420-1/depends: No such file or directory
[b][i]repeated output ommited[/i][/b]

Targets: foomatic-filters-3.0_20080420-1  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
bash-3.2#

I've tried my rudimentary skills of resyncing the mirror, clearing out the old cache etc but I'm afraid im rather lost with this one.

I think that now, who knows what else could be wrong! Could anyone please shed some light on what might be wrong? Many thanks!

Regards,

Mike.

Last edited by DrMikeDuke (2008-07-14 16:17:39)

DrMikeDuke · 2008-07-14 10:05:29

Ah probably should have mentioned what I was running perhaps? Totaly forgot:

Linux chibi 2.6.25-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 3 20:29:23 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

shining · 2008-07-14 11:35:50

Just try pacman -Syy to re-generate (which only means downloading + extracting) the sync databases in /var/lib/pacman/sync/

DrMikeDuke · 2008-07-14 16:17:14

Thanks a million shining that did the trick!

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#1 2008-07-14 09:54:13

random bits broken after update [SOLVED]

#2 2008-07-14 10:05:29

Re: random bits broken after update [SOLVED]

#3 2008-07-14 11:35:50

Re: random bits broken after update [SOLVED]

#4 2008-07-14 16:17:14

Re: random bits broken after update [SOLVED]

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