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Baraclese

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 48

[Solved] pacman errors out after a hardlock

Hi, I experienced a hardlock today due to a bad memory stick during a pacman update. Now pacman tells me this (with --debug):

looking for inter-conflicts...
debug: looking for conflicts
debug: check targets vs targets
debug: check targets vs targets
debug: check targets vs db and db vs targets
debug: check targets vs db
debug: check db vs targets
debug: checking dependencies
debug: checkdeps: package openoffice-base-3.1.0-1
debug: returning error 33 from compute_download_size : package filename is not valid
error: failed to prepare transaction (package filename is not valid)

I deinstalled openoffice-base but I still get the same error.

Oh I think I found the culprit, in /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/openoffice-base-3.1.0-1/ all files are empty.
I'm removing this directory now...
execute pacman -Syu again
still doesn't work
someone on IRC suggests pacman -Syy, this forces a synchronization of the database
I did that and now I do pacman -S openoffice-base.
This works, it's downloading openoffice-base from one of the mirrors now.

I thought I'd share this.

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: [Solved] pacman errors out after a hardlock

Thanks for sharing, I'm sure it'll help out someone in the future.

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