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alphazo

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 167

[SOLVED] pacman error

When I try to sudo pacman -Syu I get 20 lines of the same error message saying that a file or directory called "/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/pyxml-0.8.4-6/desc" doesn't exist.

:: Synchronisation des bases de données de paquets...
 core est à jour;
 extra est à jour;
 community est à jour;
 archlinuxfr est à jour;
:: Début de la mise à jour complète du système...
Erreur: l'ouverture du fichier /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/pyxml-0.8.4-6/desc a échoué: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
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Erreur: l'ouverture du fichier /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/pyxml-0.8.4-6/desc a échoué: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

Last edited by alphazo (2010-04-02 18:23:06)

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: [SOLVED] pacman error

A file got lost from your sync DB. Do "pacman -Syy" to force it to download a fresh one.

alphazo

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 167

Re: [SOLVED] pacman error

Thanks, I should had tried that first before posting. I'm having a hell of issues with the new GTK2 update and I forgot about that possibility.