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aikidoist72

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 63

pacman -Syu error

Hi

I am not sure who to contact or how to help with this, needless to say, that I am willing to do what I can.

I have a fresh install of arch and have just finished syncing my local mirror (straight from wiki) and after the command

Pacman -Syu

I get this error

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]

checking package integrity...
error: archive gaim-1.3.0-1.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted
error: archive jfsutils-1.1.8-1.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted
error: archive mozilla-firefox-1.0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted

Also I deleted the above and re-issues the sync command, recieved replacement files but still the same result.

Cheers

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: pacman -Syu error

I you're only using one mirror, then that's where the problem seems to be. Contact whoever runs it and let them know.

To fix your own system, add more mirrors.

Kern

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: pacman -Syu error

http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … figuration

check
/etc/pacman.conf
/etc/pacman.d/current

maybe swap a few servers around, put a local-ish one at the top.

agree with tomk, let the guy who runs the mirror know too

aikidoist72

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 63

Re: pacman -Syu error

Thanks for your replies guys,

I should have been more specific tho.....  I have made my own local mirror from the wiki for pacman curent and extra files.   This is using rsync.   I have tried both your suggestions of trying different servers in the config files, but alas I keep geting an error for these three items.  I have repeatedly deleted these items and rsyncing the database,again.

It must be on my end as I have redownloaded straight from Arch repository, but the error remains.  How do I get around this?

Edit :- I tried this and

[09:35][root@jelb current]# pacman -U /data/mirror/current/mozilla-firefox-1.0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data... done.
:: mozilla-firefox conflicts with nss-nspr. Remove nss-nspr? [Y/n] y
removing nss-nspr... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
upgrading mozilla-firefox... done.
[09:36][root@jelb current]#         

Will try the rest and report the results

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: pacman -Syu error

did you add the correct path directly under [current] ?

Server = file:///data/mirror/current/

and

Server = file:///data/mirror/extra/

under [extra]

aikidoist72

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 63

Re: pacman -Syu error

Hi Penguin,

Yes they are.  I have however solved the problem at the moment.

I have mistakenly used

pacman -sfu instead of pacman -SFu and 'forced' an update instead of 'freshening'.  Amazingly the only error was a missing shared library (regarding ncurses of all things????) .  After a reboot, all is well - fingers crossed. I don't know how to checkthe integrity of my system , but I am sure if something comes up, I will be on the forums.....   :?

If you know a way to test my system, I would be glad to hear it!!

Cheers

Cheers

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