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raphix

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From: France

Registered: 2008-09-27

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Pacman : returning error 16 from alpm_db_update

Recently, yaourt behave oddly on my homeserver, outputting some truncated errors messages as if they were answers from a regex search. Long story short, I tried to fix the problem but did not yet succeeded, so maybe someone here will help me.
What I tried :
Use pacman instead of yaourt -> gave me a full error message "opening /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/dhcpcd-5.1.3-1/depends failed : No file or directory" . I am not sure the problem is package-related since I uninstalled and reinstalled it.
Moreover when I tried pacman with -Scc and -Syy I had an error message about the core database. Then, with -Syu and --debug option, I had this:
:: Synchronizing packages data...
debug: failed to get lastupdate time for core
debug: using 'core.db.tar.gz' for download progress
debug: HTTP_PROXY: (null)
debug: http_proxy: (null)
debug: FTP_PROXY:  (null)
debug: ftp_proxy:  (null)
debug: connected to distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr successfully
downloading de core.db.tar.gz...
Error: deleting core database failed
debug: returning error 16 from alpm_db_update : removing entry from database failed
Error: updating core failed (removing entry from database failed)

Any idea ? Thanx in advance

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