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fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

[solved] Update Problems with [community-testing]

Since yesterday, I am unable to update with [community-testing] enabled.

If I do a pacman -Syu I get the following:

:: Synchronising package databases...
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community-testing is up to date
 xyne-any is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...

But it just hangs there until killed.

If I run a pacman -Syyu (after deleting the lock file) I get the following:

:: Synchronising package databases...
 testing                               66.2K  305.7K/s 00:00:00 [##################################] 100%
 core                                  35.7K  223.5K/s 00:00:00 [##################################] 100%
 multilib                              20.8K  196.0K/s 00:00:00 [##################################] 100%
 extra                                468.2K  525.0K/s 00:00:01 [##################################] 100%
 community-testing                     59.2K  241.7K/s 00:00:00 [##################################] 100%

and it just hangs there.

However, if I remove the [community-testing] lines from my pacman.conf it updates perfectly (although with messages that certain packages from [community-testing] are newer than their [community] versions)

I have tried changing mirrors, but all have the same problem.

Any ideas what else to try?

Last edited by fastfret79 (2010-10-14 15:04:38)

TigTex

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 301

Re: [solved] Update Problems with [community-testing]

Try to rename the folder /var/lib/pacman/sync to something else and then do pacman -Syyu. If it works, great! NEVER delete the /var/lib/pacman/local folder.

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.::. TigTex @ Portugal .::.

fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

Re: [solved] Update Problems with [community-testing]

Thanks TigTex - worked a charm

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: [solved] Update Problems with [community-testing]

By the way, if you use testing and multilib then you should use multilib-testing too.

fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

Re: [solved] Update Problems with [community-testing]

Thanks Dogmeat - didn't realise there was a [multilib-testing]