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R00KIE

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[Solved] Error: pacman cannot find a file in /var/lib/pacman/sync/

Today while doing the usual pacman -Syu I was greeted with the following:

$ sudo pacman -Syu
Password: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      33.2K  529.9K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 extra                    376.2K  801.6K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 community                256.0K  597.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/classpath-0.98-1/desc: No such file or directory
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (3): binutils-2.19.1-4  deluge-1.1.9-1  p7zip-9.04-1  

Total Download Size:    8.23 MB
Total Installed Size:   25.82 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

This is the first time I see one of these so I'm not sure how to fix it, I believe it will be wise to fix this before adding, updating or removing anything.
Please advise how to proceed with this one.

Edit:
Marked as solved

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-06-27 11:24:05)

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tomk

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Re: [Solved] Error: pacman cannot find a file in /var/lib/pacman/sync/

refresh your database with pacman -Syy.

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Error: pacman cannot find a file in /var/lib/pacman/sync/

Thank you for you lightning fast reply
The problem is now solved but I needed to select another mirror, the one I was using had something broken it seems.

If I change to the "good" mirror and pacman -Syy all is well, if I revert to the "bad" mirror and pacman -Syy then I get this error again.
It was the first time I ever had this sort of problem with that "bad" mirror, I don't know if this sort of things happens to mirrors sometimes so I'm just leaving the info here, hopefully it may help someone else in the future.

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