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#1 2014-04-01 21:13:07
- H3g3m0n
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Pacman installing corrupt files - MMDF Mailbox?
On two separate occasions I have run into problems with packages after updating them.
Binary files have been turned into garbage, running 'file' on them results in 'MMDF mailbox'. I opened one of them and it was filled with '^H' characters.
It seems to effect all the packages from a specific Pacman update command. Yesterday I got updates to Krita and Awesome, today those files where corrupt. The downloaded packages themselves seem fine. I don't remember any issues reported by the update.
I fixed the issue by reinstalling all the packages on the system, but it seems like it might be a bug that should be tracked down.
Not sure if its a Pacman bug or if there is something else going on such as a filesystem issue (I'm on Btrfs).
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#2 2014-04-02 05:53:17
- Gcool
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#3 2014-04-03 01:21:42
- H3g3m0n
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Re: Pacman installing corrupt files - MMDF Mailbox?
Doesn't seem related. Not using syslinux and its the files that are corrupt not the super block.
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