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thea

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Registered: 2006-12-22

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[Solved] missing pacman databases

Somehow I am missing critical pacman databases from one of the two computers I have running Arch:

    /var/lib/pacman/core
    /var/lib/pacman/extra
    /var/lib/pacman/community
    /var/lib/pacman/core.db.tar.gz
    /var/lib/pacman/extra.db.tar.gz
    /var/lib/pacman/community.db.tar.gz
    /var/lib/pacman/local.db.tar.gz

There are only two folders in /var/lib/pacman, namely:
    local
    sync

... both populated.

When trying to update (pacman -Syu), or query (pacman -Ss) I get the same error message:
    error: GPGME error: No data

I have looked this error message up in this forums but no problem quite like mine evident. Both machines are updated together, and the one is running just fine.

Thanks

Last edited by thea (2012-10-04 21:52:30)

jdarnold

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From: Medford MA USA

Registered: 2009-12-15

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Re: [Solved] missing pacman databases

Not sure why it is, but did you try 'pacman -Syy' to go get new databases?

thea

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Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 86

Re: [Solved] missing pacman databases

I had tried pacman -Syy earlier in my troubleshooting efforts, to no avail. Just tried it again, with mixed results. Here is my output:

error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...

After that everything appears to be functioning as it should. However the folders and files indicated in my first post are still missing.

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved] missing pacman databases

There are only two folders in /var/lib/pacman, namely:
    local
    sync

... both populated.

So.. what's the problem?

wormzy@sakura[pts/3]~$ ls /var/lib/pacman
local  sync

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [Solved] missing pacman databases

This may be way off base, but how about trying pacman-key --init to reinitialize the GPG keyring pacman uses?

Edit: on the folder "issue", I'm with WorMzy. I've only got those two folders, the databases are stored in sync.

Last edited by Scimmia (2012-10-04 18:40:57)