[SOLVED] Pacman issue after -Syu

Himari · 2010-02-22 03:02:26

Hello guys,

This morning I did a full update with "pacman -Syu", before that, I also did an installation for gnome and gnome-extra as well as openoffice. There were some connection loss during the update and perhaps some packages failed to be retrieved, however, I repeated "pacman -Syu" and install the packages again and again until it showed that everything was installed.

But after that, every time I execute the pacman command, I always get the message "error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/chrootuid-1.3-3/desc: No such file or directory", it still shows that "local db is up to date" though, however, it seems like virtualbox isn't installable as "pacman -S virtualbox-ose" returns a "not found" error.

Please give me your solution about this
Thank you

Last edited by Himari (2010-02-23 03:17:07)

Bregol · 2010-02-22 03:26:01

have you tried syncing to a different mirror?

jowilkin · 2010-02-22 03:30:14

Maybe try pacman -Scc and then pacman -Syu?

Allan · 2010-02-22 03:32:27

"pacman -Syy" should fix that for you. It looks like that file was lost somehow (power loss?).

brando56894 · 2010-02-22 03:42:24

try creating /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/chrootuid-1.3-3/desc and see what happens, half the time I do that when a program complains that a directory doesn't exist and then I re-run that command and half the time everything works correctly.

Himari · 2010-02-23 03:16:33

Pacman -Syy did the trick, but I also need to change to another mirror as well, I suppose there was something wrong with the previous mirror.
Thank you all for your help

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#1 2010-02-22 03:02:26

[SOLVED] Pacman issue after -Syu

#2 2010-02-22 03:26:01

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman issue after -Syu

#3 2010-02-22 03:30:14

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#4 2010-02-22 03:32:27

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#5 2010-02-22 03:42:24

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#6 2010-02-23 03:16:33

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