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jacob_k

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Registered: 2010-11-09

Posts: 2

Pacman detects every package as corrupted (even newly downloaded ones)

Hey,

I recently decided to do a system upgrade.

Unfortunately, gdm was buggy and my mouse/keyboard did no longer work, so I couldn't log in.

At the moment I'm using a Live CD. I removed gdm from rc.conf, so I can boot. Googling showed that the solution is to update/downgrade xf86-input-evdev. This didn't work:

xf86-input-evdev-2.5.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz is invalid or corrupted

I quickly discovered that *every* package seems to be broken. As that couldn't be (I even moved the cache, took another repository and downloaded all of them again), I thought pacman would be broken. But reinstalling it (e.g. version 3.3.3) didn't seem to help.

Any advice what I could do?

(I'm going to run memcheck now. But Windows didn't have any problems.)

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Pacman detects every package as corrupted (even newly downloaded ones)

Are the file sizes correct? If you run `md5sum` on one of the packages and compare that with the checksum in the repo, does it match up?

skunktrader

Member

From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,676

Re: Pacman detects every package as corrupted (even newly downloaded ones)

Try upgrading libarchive

jacob_k

Member

Registered: 2010-11-09

Posts: 2

Re: Pacman detects every package as corrupted (even newly downloaded ones)

Try upgrading libarchive

Wow! Worked flawlessly - thanks a lot!
- How did you know?

(And thank you too, toofishes - the md5sums were correct.)