Problemas with permissions/ pacman -Syu

Hello, im using arch for a few days and i like it a lot, since today i have this odd error when i try to use pacman
[root@archlinux yeray]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
error: /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/desc: Permission denied
'ls -al' give me this:
[root@archlinux yeray]# ls -al /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/
ls: no se puede acceder a /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/desc
total 71
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 ene 10 16:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 1968 root root 73112 ene 10 13:23 ..
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? desc
i try to put a LiveCD distro to mount arch partition and change owner or permission to this file, but i get the same 'Permission denied'
im currently using Voodoo 0.8 Archlinux.
Thank you.

Thank you for your reply
i do 'rm -rf /var/lib/pacman/extra' and everything is deleted but /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/desc Permission denied.
[root@archlinux devhelp-0.12-2]# rm -rf /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2
rm: no se puede borrar «/var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/desc»: Permiso denegado
NOTE1: 'no se puede borrar' = can't be deleted'
NOTE2: 'Pemiso denegado' = 'Permission denied'
i don't know what happen
[root@archlinux devhelp-0.12-2]# ls -al /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/
ls: no se puede acceder a /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/desc: Permiso denegado
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 ene 10 16:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 ene 10 21:42 ..
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? desc
if you see, the permissions are ???? and the owner too, so i can't do enything, but i can do all the task with pacman, i can install/remove package, and upgrade, everything ok, but i get that error enyway.
[root@archlinux devhelp-0.12-2]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
current [################] 100% 71K 27.9K/s 00:00:02
extra [################] 100% 272K 65.3K/s 00:00:04
could not extract devhelp-0.12-2/desc: Permission denied
error: /var/lib/pacman/extra/devhelp-0.12-2/desc: Permission denied
NOTE3: 'no se puede acceder a' = 'can't access to'
NOTE4: excuse my english, it's not my native lenguage.
Thank You.

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