Pacman strange behavior (SOLVED)

Question

I installed Arch bare and I am liking it. I set up pacman "to the book" but it is behaving rather "strangely". When I am installing a package it DLs one item then books out with a message "Failed Downloading . . . " then it locks. Each time I have to go to /tmp and delete pacman.lck then rerun the instllation and it does this up to about the last 3 items of which I get the message "Failed Downloading . . . " then it searches the next repo and processed to DL and install. Could it be something with my config? Do I have to disable the other repos?

Answer 1

I'm having the same problem.  It looks like not being able to retreive the filesize is causing pacman to dump.
Here is my output:
[root@stheno ~]# pacman -S scons
Targets: scons-0.96.92-2
Total Package Size:   0.6 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
warning: failed to get filesize for scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.nethat.com: 550 scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz: No such file or directory
warning: failed to get filesize for scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz from ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu: 550 Failed to open file.
warning: failed to get filesize for scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550 Failed to open file.
warning: failed to get filesize for scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.ibiblio.org: 550 scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz: No such file or directory
warning: failed to get filesize for scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading scons-0.96.92-2.pkg.tar.gz from mirror.cs.vt.edu: 550 Failed to open file.
connect: Connection refused
error: cannot connect to archlinux.antesis.org
*** glibc detected *** pacman: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0875ce70 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x400b7b10]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x89)[0x400b91a9]
pacman[0x80604ee]
pacman[0x805b731]
pacman[0x805bdeb]
pacman[0x80523c6]
pacman[0x8055335]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8)[0x400697c8]
pacman[0x804a0a1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0806b000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 2083461    /usr/bin/pacman
0806b000-0806c000 rw-p 00023000 03:43 2083461    /usr/bin/pacman
0806c000-0877f000 rw-p 0806c000 00:00 0          [heap]
40000000-4001a000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226508    /lib/ld-2.5.so
4001a000-4001b000 r--p 00019000 03:43 5226508    /lib/ld-2.5.so
4001b000-4001c000 rw-p 0001a000 03:43 5226508    /lib/ld-2.5.so
4001c000-4001f000 rw-p 4001c000 00:00 0
4001f000-40027000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226552    /lib/libnss_files-2.5.so
40027000-40029000 rw-p 00007000 03:43 5226552    /lib/libnss_files-2.5.so
40029000-4002d000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226549    /lib/libnss_dns-2.5.so
4002d000-4002f000 rw-p 00003000 03:43 5226549    /lib/libnss_dns-2.5.so
4002f000-4003d000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226548    /lib/libresolv-2.5.so
4003d000-4003f000 rw-p 0000d000 03:43 5226548    /lib/libresolv-2.5.so
4003f000-40042000 rw-p 4003f000 00:00 0
40042000-40053000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 2065997    /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
40053000-40054000 rw-p 00011000 03:43 2065997    /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
40054000-40178000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 5226513    /lib/libc-2.5.so
40178000-40179000 r--p 00124000 03:43 5226513    /lib/libc-2.5.so
40179000-4017b000 rw-p 00125000 03:43 5226513    /lib/libc-2.5.so
4017b000-40184000 rw-p 4017b000 00:00 0
401a9000-401b3000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 2065391    /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
401b3000-401b4000 rw-p 00009000 03:43 2065391    /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
40200000-40221000 rw-p 40200000 00:00 0
40221000-40300000 ---p 40221000 00:00 0
bfb19000-bfb2e000 rw-p bfb19000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
Aborted
Is this a mirror syncing issue?