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john.magnus

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Registered: 2011-04-10

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Error: ... community.db:

After I upgraded to latest Pacman (3.5) I get this:

: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                             37.4K  211.4K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################] 100%
 extra                                                           471.2K  249.1K/s 00:00:02 [#####################################################] 100%
 community                                                         4.0K   98.0K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################] 100%
 archlinuxfr                                                      29.3K  173.5K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: (Empty error message)
 there is nothing to do

after pacman -Syyu or -Syu. I have followed the upgrade instructions as was given when I updated pacman. I'm not quite sure I've gotten any upgrades after that (latest beeing some after KDE 4.6.2).

Now, I'm aware that the 'nothing to do' can indicate that all is well, but I'm beeing put of by the /var/lib/pacman ... etc error message. Is something really wrong or am I just beeing paranoid about it?

Cheers!

Last edited by john.magnus (2011-04-10 19:11:41)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,576

Re: [SOLVED] Error: ... community.db:

Try a different mirror -- the size of 4.0K seems too small to be valid

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: ... community.db:

Please search the forums before posting.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116617

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john.magnus

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Registered: 2011-04-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: ... community.db:

I don't want to be rude, but I did in fact search before posting; the phrase "error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: (Empty error message)" was used. And alslo "Empty error message". Waited ages for a result and got like:

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 500

bbs.archlinux.org
Sun Apr 10 15:05:58 2011
Apache

Anyhow. Thanks for the forum thead! It did the trick; had to try 3-4 different mirrors, but it's working now. Yay!