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loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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libarchive erorr and corrupt sync db?

Out of the blue and with no updates or changes of any kind since I last successfully used pacman, I got the following when doing a "pacman -Syu".

: Synchronising package databases...
 testing                   0.0K     testing                  16.1K  509.8K/s 00:00:00
pacman: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libarchive.so.2: undefined symbol: ?<$$?????

I deleted the leftover lockfile, ran "pacman -Syu" again and got a load of warnings that package x was newer than the version in core.

I use testing so there must have been a problem with the sync db.  A "pacman -Syy" fixed that issue and all is now ok.

But what could have caused the original problem?

Last edited by loafer (2011-02-26 18:10:25)

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