Can't Update Because file "exists in filesystem" [SOLVED]

Question

I am having the below problem:
$ sudo pacman -Suyy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 112.9 KiB 2.83M/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100%
extra 1763.2 KiB 845K/s 00:02 [###############################################] 100%
community 2.3 MiB 2.65M/s 00:01 [###############################################] 100%
archlinuxfr 19.7 KiB 160K/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/ldb-1.1.16-1/desc: No such file or directory
:: Replace lzo2 with core/lzo? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/libgxps-0.2.2-3/desc: No such file or directory
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (43): cairo-1.12.16-3 cups-1.7.5-1 device-mapper-2.02.108-1 dhcpcd-6.4.3-1 e2fsprogs-1.42.11-1 epiphany-3.12.1-2
ffmpeg-1:2.3.1-1 gettext-0.19.2-1 git-2.0.4-1 kdelibs-4.13.3-2 ldb-1.1.17-1 libarchive-3.1.2-8 libcups-1.7.5-1
libkolab-0.5.2-1 libpeas-1.10.1-1 libutil-linux-2.25-3 libwbclient-4.1.11-1 linux-3.15.8-1 linux-headers-3.15.8-1
lvm2-2.02.108-1 lzo-2.08-3 lzo2-2.08-1 [removal] meld-3.11.2-3 mesa-10.2.5-1 mkinitcpio-18-1 parted-3.2-1
phpmyadmin-4.2.7-1 python-setuptools-1:5.4.2-1 python2-boto-2.32.1-1 s-nail-14.7.5-1 samba-4.1.11-1
smartmontools-6.3-1 smbclient-4.1.11-1 syslinux-6.03pre19-1 tar-1.28-1 tdb-1.3.0-2 traceroute-2.0.20-1
util-linux-2.25-3 virtualbox-4.3.14-3 xorg-server-1.16.0-6 xorg-server-common-1.16.0-6 xorg-xrandr-1.4.3-1
zenity-3.12.1-2
Total Installed Size: 450.30 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 1.10 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(42/42) checking keys in keyring [###############################################] 100%
(42/42) checking package integrity [###############################################] 100%
(42/42) loading package files [###############################################] 100%
(42/42) checking for file conflicts [###############################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ldb: /usr/bin/ldbadd exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/bin/ldbdel exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/bin/ldbedit exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/bin/ldbmodify exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/bin/ldbrename exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/bin/ldbsearch exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/include/ldb.h exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/include/ldb_errors.h exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/include/ldb_handlers.h exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/include/ldb_module.h exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/include/ldb_version.h exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/include/pyldb.h exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/libldb-cmdline.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/asq.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/ldap.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/paged_results.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/paged_searches.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/rdn_name.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/sample.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/server_sort.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/ldb/modules/ldb/skel.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/libldb.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/libldb.so.1 exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/libpyldb-util.so exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/libpyldb-util.so.1 exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ldb.pc exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pyldb-util.pc exists in filesystem
ldb: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ldb.so exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Recently I did have a problem with my pacman DB files over here but I fixed that. I also tried now making a new empty /var/lib/pacman/sync directory but the output is the same as above.
I tried Googling for this issue but I am not succeededing.
Can anyone advise what I can do to troubleshoot this?
Last edited by CaptainKirk (2014-08-07 11:28:01)

Answer 1

Thank you for that link.
I checked the first two  /usr/bin/ldbadd and /usr/bin/ldbdel and no package owns them. So I ran:
sudo pacman -S --force lib32-libdbus
because now I got:
:: Replace lib32-dbus-core with multilib/lib32-libdbus? [Y/n]
because I just enabled multilib in order to upgrade skype (which worked). Anyhow, the install of lib32-libdbus worked fine, but
pacman -Syu
still gives all the errors above. Should I try to rename all those files?
Your title however is misleading - nothing says files are missing, the problem is those files are already there but pacman doesn't know why.
Well, I also see this:
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/ldb-1.1.16-1/desc: No such file or directory
as well as another. So something does appear to be missing to me.