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Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

[SOLVED]Pacman error: could not open file /var/.../portaudio

Anyone got any insight?

Any pacman or AUR-helper operation I try to do results in many repititions of this error.

[marcus@ARCH ~]$ packer -Syu
Password: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                    450.4K  401.0K/s 00:00:01 [##########################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com#####-------------]  68%
 community                372.7K  997.9K/s 00:00:00 [##########################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory
[snip many repeats of same error]

[marcus@ARCH ~]$ packer portaudio
0 error: could not open file /desc: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory                                                            
1 community/desc: 19_20071207-2error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory                                                          

    error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory
2 aur/haskell-portaudio 0.0.1-2
    Haskell bindings for the PortAudio library. 
3 aur/mingw32-portaudio 19_20071207-1
    A free, cross-platform, open source, audio I/O library (mingw32) 
4 aur/portaudio-svn 1384-3
    PortAudio is a free, cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library. 
5 aur/pyaudio 0.2.3-3
    Python bindings for PortAudio, the cross-platform audio I/O library 
6 aur/portaudio_v18 pa_snapshot_v18-3
    A free, cross-platform, open source, audio I/O library 

Type numbers to install. Separate each number with a space.
Numbers: 1
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/depends: No such file or directory
desc: package not found, searching for group...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/portaudio-19_20071207-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: 'desc:': not found in sync db

Last edited by Skripka (2010-05-11 18:21:11)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: [SOLVED]Pacman error: could not open file /var/.../portaudio

looks like that mirror has some problem, switch to another one for the time being

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: [SOLVED]Pacman error: could not open file /var/.../portaudio

looks like that mirror has some problem, switch to another one for the time being

That mirror does have a problem...but switching to a different mirror returns the same mystery local error.  PS-I haven't had portaudio installed on my system in at least 6 months, and pacman has started returning errors about it this morning

Last edited by Skripka (2010-05-11 18:15:33)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: [SOLVED]Pacman error: could not open file /var/.../portaudio

Did you try pacman -Syy (force refresh package lists) with the new mirror?

Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-11 18:18:03)

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: [SOLVED]Pacman error: could not open file /var/.../portaudio

Wierd.  Got it to go away with a -Syy.  I hate it when things go away without a clue as to why they went away, or why they occurred in the 1st place.

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: [SOLVED]Pacman error: could not open file /var/.../portaudio

I guess the community package-list file was missing on the server, screwing up your /sync database, and it fixed itself when you forced pacman to resync the package list database from the working mirror.

dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 124

Re: [SOLVED]Pacman error: could not open file /var/.../portaudio

I have the same problem, the difference is that it is about "/var/lib/pacman/sync/kdemod-core/kdemod-kdetoys-ktux-debug-4.4.1-1/desc". I tried many mirrors and typed "pacman -Syy", but it didn't help.