Pacman ignores writable cache, uses /tmp. Due to cache permissions

Hi, I had a problem today that wasted a bit of time so I thought it worth posting here. Let me know if I should raise this as a bug.
I noticed that my pacman cache wasn't being found when doing an update.
Doing "pacman -Syu" gave a warning "couldn't find or create package cache, using /tmp instead".
However, I have a cache at /var/cache/pacman/pkg and I have confirmed that it's writeable and I have checked that I have nothing in my /etc/pacman.conf to change from the default cache.
Even doing "pacman --cachedir /var/cache/pacman/pkg -Syu" didn't help.
When I used "--debug" I saw this:
debug: skipping cachedir, no write bits set: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
debug: option 'cachedir' = /tmp/
debug: using cachedir: /tmp/
warning: couldn't find or create package cache, using /tmp/ instead
Which caused me to further investigate writing to the directory. All these tests worked - it was there and I could write to it. I then checked the permissions. There were none, it was "d---------". When I changed this to 755 all started working. I don't know what caused its permissions to be wiped.
Now, the permissions were wrong, I admit, but as root can write anyway it seems rather odd that this stops pacman from useing it. I notice that lipalpm explicitly checks the permissions after a patch was applied in 2011.
I think it would help if pacman provided the reason why the cache is not used rather than just saying "couldn't find or create package cache".
I'll raise a bug report if it's worthwhile.

Scimmia wrote:
I'm starting to feel like a bot.
Intel CPU? If so, microcode up to date?
THANK YOU SO MUCH! It was driving me crazy and I felt like it was either QT or GTK or some library that was messed up... did a full reinstall. Also ran several hours or "memtests" to check hardware (didn't notice the issue until after several reoccurring power outages and feared the worse.) Once again, thank you very much!

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Developer Guidelines for Using /tmp ?

Is there an Apple document anywhere with an official guidelines for using /tmp?
I know Apple started (explicitly) encouraging developers to use /tmp under Leopard because it's ignored by Time Machine but I can't find any actual definition of what a "temporary" file is or how long it can be guaranteed to exist in /tmp. Does the system regularly flush /tmp files using something like cron or luanchd as a part of system maintain?
I think it is a good idea but I don't want someone to leave the application open and possibly have a support file pulled out from underneath it.
Thanks,
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Tod Kuykendall wrote:
Is there an Apple document anywhere with an official guidelines for using /tmp?
I don't think Apple's guidelines are any different than the standard /tmp guidelines for UNIX. That being said, I don't know if they are written down anywhere.
I wouldn't use /tmp at all if there were another option. Most UNIX programmers try to avoid it because it is is usually a tiny partition on a local file system. Often, if you need a temp file, you need lots of space. Other times, you need a temp file but you want it to be fast. A common tactic is to create temp files and then hard link them into place when you are done. That usually won't work if using /tmp because the final destination is a different file system.
I know Apple started (explicitly) encouraging developers to use /tmp under Leopard because it's ignored by Time Machine but I can't find any actual definition of what a "temporary" file is or how long it can be guaranteed to exist in /tmp. Does the system regularly flush /tmp files using something like cron or luanchd as a part of system maintain?
They usually go away at reboot. I don't know if it is shutdown or start up. /tmp is a good place for UNIX sockets, but not much else.
I think it is a good idea but I don't want someone to leave the application open and possibly have a support file pulled out from underneath it.
Nothing is going to get pulled out from underneath. I don't know the details of when the flush takes place, but I know it won't touch any open files. Otherwise, some system services (UNIX sockets are on my mind these days) wouldn't work. I wouldn't close any file in /tmp and later expect it to be there. It usually will be there, but it isn't guaranteed.

Being forced to use Windows due serious Entourage 08 problems

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I posted this as a response to a Spotlight Markspace Notes issue I encountered as a result of having to give up on Entourage due to its many issues but primarily due to its sync issues. I thought I'd post it here as a general thought on what is happening at least for me which I suspect will happen with others and thus potentially threatens the Mac:
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I suppose then my only concern with running XP continuously and running all my core apps from XP is the overhead its going to put on my machine and then really I have to ask the question well what am i using OSX for. I don't have a good answer to this but I know once I start thinking this way I'll slowly start testing sync under Windows for the BlackBerry and the Palm and if it seems viable from my virtual machine I'll just buy updated Windows version of Office and Quicken. Now I've migrated back to Windows, gone through the learning curve to get back and well even if the Mac stuff gets resolved (Office, which I think is a long way off in terms of a fix as its a mess and who knows with Quicken as there is literally no info) am I going to feel like doing the reverse of the above - maybe yes and maybe no.
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:08:02 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Error message" ...file...could not be written due to insufficient permissions"
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Thanks Leonie,
Your replies on this issue elsewhere lead me to the solution.
The issue is that the *installer* doesn't require write access, but actually Aperture itself, every time it runs. That's crazy given I'm not changing the licence every time. The upgrade to Aperture came via the App Store, so I'm at a loss why it requires these broken unix permissions to run *every* time.
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Hey all,
I'm a fairly new Arch user, and to be honest, a fairly new Linux user in general. Over the years I tried so many times to make the transition from Windows to Linux and after finding Arch, I felt it was finally time, but I digress...
I now run 2 Arch machines here and one Arch virtual machine, but I found myself with a little problem. Having 3 machines meant that it required either 3 times the bandwidth to keep them updated, or a lot of hassle with copying packages around the network. I even experimented with using the Pacman cache directory on an NFS share, but none of these were acceptable to me.
So this afternoon I sat down and coded a solution I was happy with.
I run a small Linux server here, Debian based, which serves as a small file server to the local network and also hosts a few services for myself and a friend. This server also runs Lighttpd which I use for developing with PHP and Perl.
The idea was that this machine would be a mirror for Arch to update from, but I didn't want to mirror everything, just those packages which I used. After much searching through Google I discovered someone who had done something similar for Debian based distributions, apt-cache. It's essentially a small web-server which, when queried for a package, first checks it's local cache, and if it doesn't find the file, it downloads it from an official mirror, both storing it locally and sending it to the client.
I've never coded in Java personally and I didn't want to have 2 web-servers running when one would suffice, so I set about coding something similar in PHP.
The end result is 130 lines of code, and a url.rewrite rule, which achieves exactly what I was after. It works like this:
1) Pacman requests a file from the local server
2) Local server checks to see if it has the file
3a) Local server cannot find the file so it requests it from an Arch mirror
4a) The file is simultaneously downloaded, written to disk and sent to Pacman.
3b) Local server has the file
4b) The file is sent to Pacman
The end result is a transparent cache which will only have to download the file once. An example of the speed increase is as follows:
# pacman -S --downloadonly kernel26
kernel26 21.7M 806.4K/s 00:00:28
# rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6.21.5-1.pkg.tar.gz
# pacman -S --downloadonly kernel26
kernel26 21.7M 8.5M/s 00:00:03
As you can see, after the package was cached on the server, it didn't need re-downloading and as such it transferred to the local machine at LAN speeds.
My mirror entries for the repositories looks like this:
Server = http://192.168.0.1/pacman-cache/pkg/current/os/i686/
Server = http://192.168.0.1/pacman-cache/pkg/extra/os/i686/
etc....
So, my question is this; would anyone out there be interested in the code? Right now it still needs a lot of work before it could be made public as there's very little error checking; I need to handle unexpected conditions like a broken download, and I also have to add handling to deal with the db.tar.gz files being updated, but as and when I feel it's ready would anyone use it?
I'd appreciate any input anyone felt like sharing, even feature requests =^.^=
PS: I hope this is in the right sub-forum... I didn't think it belonged in the actual Pacman forum, but if it did, apologies!

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cfr wrote:Post fstab and the output of gdisk -l /dev/sdX (or fdisk -l but I'm assuming you are using GPT).
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gdisk is here https://gist.github.com/mdedetrich/2017fcb5d33023ccd1bb
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Here is my /etc/hosts
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Archie
209.85.135.82 csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com
# End of file
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[csslayer-aur-repo]
Server = http://csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com/files

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Surely pacman does not deploy its own DNS server, but seems to ignore /etc/hosts. If i remove csslayer line from /etc/hosts then wget also will fail.
[hash@Archie ~]$ wget http://csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com/files/csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz
--2010-07-26 18:54:29-- http://csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com/files/csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz
Translacja csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com... 209.85.135.82
Łączenie się z csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com|209.85.135.82|:80... połączono.
Żądanie HTTP wysłano, oczekiwanie na odpowiedź... 200 OK
Długość: 1190 (1,2K) [application/x-gzip]
Zapis do: `csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz'
100%[=============================================================================================================================================================================>] 1.190 --.-K/s w 0,02s
2010-07-26 18:54:30 (72,5 KB/s) - zapisano `csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz' [1190/1190]
[hash@Archie ~]$ pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
kde-unstable is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
error: nie udało się pobrać pliku 'csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz' z csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com : Not Found
error: failed to update csslayer-aur-repo (Not Found)
Last edited by hash (2010-07-26 16:55:47)

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gettext-0.18.1.1-1 grep-2.7-1 sed-4.2.1-3 grub-0.97-17 gzip-1.4-2 net-tools-1.60-14 kbd-1.15.2-1 sysvinit-2.88-2 initscripts-2010.07-2
iputils-20100214-2 jfsutils-1.1.14-2 kernel26-2.6.36.2-1 less-436-2 licenses-2.6-1 logrotate-3.7.9-1 lvm2-2.02.78-1 mailx-8.1.1-7 gdbm-1.8.3-7
perl-5.12.1-3 texinfo-4.13a-5 groff-1.20.1-4 man-db-2.5.9-1 man-pages-3.32-1 mdadm-3.1.4-1 nano-2.2.6-1 xz-5.0.0-1 openssl-1.0.0.c-1
expat-2.0.1-5 libarchive-2.8.4-2 libfetch-2.33-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20100825-1 pacman-3.4.1-1 pciutils-3.1.7-1 sysfsutils-2.1.0-5 pcmciautils-017-1
libnl-1.1-2 libpcap-1.1.1-1 ppp-2.4.5-1 procps-3.2.8-3 psmisc-22.13-1 reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-2 rp-pppoe-3.10-5 eventlog-0.2.12-1 tcp_wrappers-7.6-12
syslog-ng-3.2.1-1 tar-1.25-1 usbutils-0.91-4 vi-050325-3 wget-1.12-2 which-2.20-4 dbus-core-1.4.0-1 wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-1 xfsprogs-3.1.4-1
Total Download Size: 80.20 MB
Total Installed Size: 332.55 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
I tried switching the -S and --ignore options, no difference.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19854

Pacman ignores --root flag's input; chroot not in /opt/arch32

Due to lack of storage capacity on my root partition, I would like to install chroot in my home folder. Which does not work. If I change all the paths to the folder in my home folder nothing works.
pacman --root /home/svein/arch32 --cachedir /home/svein/arch32/var/cache/pacman/pkg --config /home/svein/arch32/pacman.conf -Sy
This would output;
error: config file /opt/arch32/mirrorlist could not be read.
I cannot see any /opt/ anywhere in the input. So what's wrong?

Does /home/svein/arch32/pacman.conf contain "Include = /opt/arch32/mirrorlist"?

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