Pacman-optimize: Is this bad?

==> md5sum'ing the old database...
==> copying /var/lib/pacman...
==> md5sum'ing the new database...
==> checking integrity...
pacman-optimize: integrity check FAILED, reverting to old databse
What could cause this error? I ran this after noticing that pacman would freeze (and segfault) when trying to uninstall the big-ass kde group of packages. How can I fix this sort of problem?

phrakture wrote:Yes. There are things being worked on, but alot of people don't experience any slowdown.... for me, I never notice any problems...
IMHO the reason most people don't experience any slowdown is that they run Arch Linux on a desktop with lots and lots of memory so their pacman db never comes out of cache. And even if it does, their 7200 rpm disks with blazing fast access times can handle this.
I know this has been reported over and over, but this is what it looks like on a notebook with an average 5400 rpm drive with an ext3 partition:
[gali@neutrino ~]$ time pacman -Ss rosegarden
extra/rosegarden 4.1.0-1
audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music
composition and editing application.
real 0m27.105s
user 0m0.394s
sys 0m0.660s
It used to be even worse -- around 45 seconds --, but I found another pacman directory under /var/lib/pacman/, so I had the entire repository tree nearly duplicated. I really don't know what caused this and whether if it was intentional, but guessing it wasn't, I just removed it. :-) du -hs /var/lib/pacman now comes out with only :-) 42 MB instead of the original 65 MB.
Moroever, when installing a package, after the last line of installing packagexyz... done, it takes another 15 or 20 seconds for pacman to finish.
And there are people out there still using 4200 rpm drives in their older notebooks...
Please, don't get me wrong. I'm totally happy with Arch, this is just a minor annoyance. But I think it deserves attention.
I was a longtime Windows user with only very passive Linux usage (several different reasons -- like a some gaming in the past, my sound card not being supported, etc.), but in July I finally switched over. For an ocassional use, Debian and Ubuntu was okay for me. But in a day-to-day manner, I just somehow couldn't feel at home there. Maybe because I felt the system is totally out of my control. (How ironic since I switched over from Windows. :-))
Now I'm using Arch for a month or so and never felt happier in Linux.
phrakture wrote:But the next release of pacman won't change the current system, but it will improve performance
Well I'm certainly more than happy to hear this. :-)
Maybe if pacman was using a plugin system for its database. And user could choose between filesystem-based storage, sqlite3 or anything that would be available as a plugin. I'm quite sure it couldn't take so long to search through a 40 MB sqlite DB, even on a slower hard drive like mine. It shouldn't be too hard to implement too, if pacman uses some healthy amount of abstraction when retrieving data from its database... But I haven't looked at the source code, so I don't know. And I guess it would break the omnipresent KISS principle...
Hey, it was just an idea. :-)

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Unfortunately, most of my advice is in the "hindsight is 20-20" category.
First off, I would never have purchased the peripheral accessories until the 14 day return period had expired. Second, you learned the hard way what the "14 days" really means.
Too bad you didn't do any homework, reading this and other forums and tech sites. Even word of mouth from others. That, more than anything could have steered you towards different phone choices from the get-go and I will leave that there with no further comment other than to say most of the issues you described have been discussed in this forum, ad nauseam.
Once you got into the refurbished phone exchanges, that is where things really went haywire. What someone tells you over the phone is a sketchy proposition, and when it comes down to it, it's your word against theirs.
I think Verizon tried to make it right, though. Remember, they don't make the phones. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
You stated yourself you were a satisfied Verizon customer before this. Had the first two phones performed as they should, you would still be a satisfied Verizon customer.
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