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#1 2010-04-06 03:13:12
- fuzzz579
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Nothing in sync DB [SOLVED, kinda]
Hi I was trying to install qingy, and something happened and the packages got corrupted, and now I cannot download/update any packages.
Well I googled around an I found a post by someone who had a similar problem, and I tried the solution (there was a mirrorlist.pacnew that I made the new mirrorlist, but I don't think that this changed anything) but still no dice. So I looked around some more, and I found many posts detailing similar problems, but all of them were fixed by changing he mirror, or doing:
pacman -Syu
pacman -Syyu
pacman -Syy
pacman -Scc
or just plain old pacman -Sy
I tried all of those, and still no dice.
One of theme reconfigured their pacman.conf, but mine was already fixed. I am trying pacman -S qingy as my test command, but have tried others, and none of the test commands sow up in my pacman.log file. So my question (obviously) is how do I fix this? If I need to post any files let me know, but I would rather not, as the problem is on my fresh arch install, and posting them would be a pain (no X). If anyone has a method to post these files from my fresh arch install than that would be great. Thanks.
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#2 2010-04-06 03:43:27
- anonymous_user
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Re: Nothing in sync DB [SOLVED, kinda]
Change mirrors (if you already did, try again) then do pacman -Syy.
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#3 2010-04-06 04:25:37
- fuzzz579
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Re: Nothing in sync DB [SOLVED, kinda]
Ok so I did that already, but I did it again on a different network and it solved it. I think what was happening is that the network I was on before (its a school network) was denying the requests to the server, and returning a error file or somesuch (all of the DB files were 19.6 KB from all mirrors I tried) so its solved, but thanks for the reply.
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#4 2010-04-06 04:29:10
- Allan
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Re: Nothing in sync DB [SOLVED, kinda]
Sounds like you are behind some sort of proxy/firewall. Sometimes using a ftp mirror instead of an http one gets around this. Otherwise, there are instructions on the wiki about setting your system up for this.
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