[solved] Failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

ianharrison · 2016-10-13 19:11:44

I'm trying to download the openssh package, but keep receiving the following error:

"Failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)" error

I have configured pacman-key as per the documentation and checked that the network time was set correctly.

I ran the command in the pacman documentation associated with this error:

# find /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -iname "*.part" -exec rm {} \;

Can someone point me in the right direction? Could it be that the mirror it is downloading the package from is outside my configured timezone?

$ sudo pacman -S openssh
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/gnome-getting-started-docs-3.20.0-1/desc: No such file or directory
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (3) dnssec-anchors-20150403-1  ldns-1.6.17-4  openssh-7.3p1-1

Total Download Size:   0.69 MiB
Total Installed Size:  6.02 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.manchester.m247.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.cinosure.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from archlinux.polymorf.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.js-webcoding.de : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.sh.cvut.cz : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from arch.tamcore.eu : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.uni-plovdiv.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
 openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64                                                 6.3 KiB  39.6K/s 00:00 [#######################################################] 100%
(3/3) checking keys in keyring                                                                 [#######################################################] 100%
(3/3) checking package integrity                                                               [#######################################################] 100%
error: openssh: signature from "Gaetan Bisson <gaetan@fenua.org>" is invalid
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssh-7.3p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] n
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Last edited by ianharrison (2016-10-16 19:42:23)

philo · 2016-10-14 09:13:36

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … 9.22_error

EDIT - Overlooked that you tried that already.

Last edited by philo (2016-10-14 11:52:49)

V1del · 2016-10-14 09:28:47

Your mirrorlist/package database is outdated, run a

sudo pacman -Syu openssh

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … nsupported

ianharrison · 2016-10-14 09:37:01

philo wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … 9.22_error

I tried that already. I mentioned it in my original post. Thanks for the reply though.

ianharrison · 2016-10-14 09:38:00

V1del wrote:

Your mirrorlist/package database is outdated, run a
sudo pacman -Syu openssh
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … nsupported

Ok thanks I'll give this a try when I get back home.

anark10n · 2016-10-14 14:50:43

Getting the same error just trying to do regular system upgrade.

I have tried this:

rm -R /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
rm -R /root/.gnupg
dirmngr </dev/null

pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinux
pacman-key --refresh-keys

and tried reinstalling the archlinux-keyring, and removing any .part packages, but nothing works. If I run the update to redownload the pacakages, it will complain about other packages being corrupt that it didn't complain about in the previous update execution.

V1del · 2016-10-14 14:57:03

You could simply remove your whole cache and redownload everything, have you had aprupt abortion of an update for some reason? Is your disk starting to fail?

Scimmia · 2016-10-14 15:18:19

Try a different mirror.

anark10n · 2016-10-15 04:07:31

Removed package cache. Tried different mirrors. Still acting up the same way. Complain about corrupt packages -> redownload packages -> complain about other corrupt packages -> redownload -> complain about the previously redownloaded packages being corrupt.

a821 · 2016-10-15 11:03:11

Are you behind some sort of proxy? Did you try to see what the downloaded files are? I remember someone who had pkg.tar.xz files which were actually HTML files with 404 errors...

ianharrison · 2016-10-15 15:38:58

V1del wrote:

Your mirrorlist/package database is outdated, run a
sudo pacman -Syu openssh
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … nsupported

This solved my problem.

WorMzy · 2016-10-15 16:13:34

Please mark your thread as [solved] by editing the first post and amending the topic title.

anark10n · 2016-10-15 20:58:43

a821 wrote:

Are you behind some sort of proxy? Did you try to see what the downloaded files are? I remember someone who had pkg.tar.xz files which were actually HTML files with 404 errors...

Not behind a proxy. And the package files do appear to contain the correct contents.

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[solved] Failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

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