So many errors with pacman 3.4 and upgrading

trusktr · 2010-06-25 18:38:03

I've attempted to do a pacman -Syu with pacman 3.4 and now it is saying that every single package is corrupt.

I attempted pacman -Sc and it is saying: every package is corrupt, do you want to delete it?

I noticed many of the packges being downloaded are all ending in .xz.aria2
Is this perhaps a problem with the server pacman is downloading from?

UPDATE:
... OK, wierd, i closed my terminal and restarted, then everything worked perfect.

I was able to upgrade, however, clearing the cache returns errors:

[root@rocketship ~]# pacman -Sc
Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
Do you want to remove uninstalled packages from cache? [Y/n] y
removing old packages from cache...
error: error while reading package /var/cache/pacman/pkg/poppler-data-0.4.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.aria2: Unrecognized archive format
File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/poppler-data-0.4.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.aria2 does not seem to be a valid package, remove it? [Y/n] n

Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] y
Database directory cleaned up
[root@rocketship ~]#

Last edited by trusktr (2010-06-25 22:12:45)

andresp · 2010-06-25 18:45:02

trusktr wrote:

I noticed many of the packges being downloaded are all ending in .xz.aria2
Is this perhaps a problem with the server pacman is downloading from?

You are using powerpill or another wrapper?

trusktr · 2010-06-25 22:13:18

yes, i think i tried powerpill once since i was having problems with pacman.

Does powerpill save packages with those extensions?

Last edited by trusktr (2010-06-25 22:13:41)

anonymous_user · 2010-06-25 23:44:45

Powerpill uses aria2 to download the packages:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Powerpill

skottish · 2010-06-25 23:54:15

anonymous_user wrote:

Powerpill uses aria2 to download the packages:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Powerpill

And, it will leave .aria2 files behind if any download fails to finish. Those files are safe to remove.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-06-25 18:38:03

So many errors with pacman 3.4 and upgrading

#2 2010-06-25 18:45:02

Re: So many errors with pacman 3.4 and upgrading

#3 2010-06-25 22:13:18

Re: So many errors with pacman 3.4 and upgrading

#4 2010-06-25 23:44:45

Re: So many errors with pacman 3.4 and upgrading

#5 2010-06-25 23:54:15

Re: So many errors with pacman 3.4 and upgrading

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