[solved] pacman sync delete

I did a VERY stupid operation:
rm -r /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/firefox-3.0.5-1
After that I can not install firefox with pacman anymore. What can I do for this?
Thank you!
Last edited by horsecool (2008-12-24 19:45:04)

pacman -Syy && pacman -S firefox
EDIT: he beat me to the Submit button.
Last edited by Wintervenom (2008-12-22 03:59:55)

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[SOLVED] Pacman syncs repos when doing -Syu immediately after -Syyu

Hello!
I've tried to find information regarding my problem but I've not found any, so maybe you would care to help me (I hope).
It's not a big deal for me really, but it is annoying. The problem is as follows:
Say I'm about to upgrade my system and I do:
sudo pacman -Syyu
then pacman syncs with the repos even if they may be up-to-date and upgrades all packages. That's awesome and exactly as it should be. However, were I to execute
sudo pacman -Syu
immediately after the
sudo pacman -Syyu
command, it still downloads the repo-data even though it's up to date with a 100% certainty.
As I said, I'm not bothered bery much with this, but it would be nice to fix.
Also, It works on my other computer without problems.
Thanks in advance for any help.
/R
Last edited by roobie (2012-06-09 12:10:52)

My laptop behaved in a similar way, that is it sync'ed repos even if I wrote "pacman -Syu" right away after another system update. When I changed /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to choose another repos mirror first, the problem got solved. So my advice is, change the mirror in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[SOLVED] Pacman sync problem

I'm recently having a problem trying to sync the package databases or any packages with pacman.
Here're some outputs: http://pastebin.ca/2108502
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Last edited by debdj (2012-02-01 18:13:21)

falconindy wrote:Post the output of 'df -Th' please.
Here it is:
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rootfs rootfs 9.3G 2.8G 6.1G 31% /
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Last edited by debdj (2012-02-01 17:01:05)

[Solved] error could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db

I am trying to install Arch but when I type "pacstrap /mnt base base-devel" I keep on getting this error "error could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db unrecognized archive format".
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# rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync/
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I have also tried pacman -Syy with no luck.
What more is there to do besides installing ubuntu?
Last edited by johane (2012-08-11 08:22:07)

johane wrote:
I am trying to install Arch but when I type "pacstrap /mnt base base-devel" I keep on getting this error "error could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db unrecognized archive format".
I have tried:
# rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync/
Pacstrap was telling you it couldn't open a file, so you just deleted the entire directory tree? Did it appear to be downloading the database files correctly before this? Did you try running pacstrap again after you deleted everything?
And then you tried to run pacman with the -f (force) option? What happened? "no luck" doesn't tell us anything.
What more is there to do besides installing ubuntu?
There are many things you can do. You can give us more information about what you did and what happened. Did you follow all the steps in the Beginners Guide up to the pacstrap step? Did you get any errors or warnings before that step? Are you sure you had a working network connection? Did you interrupt the pacstrap process at any time? Did you try running it again after you deleted /var/lib/pacman/sync?
Did you check the sha1sum of the iso you downloaded before you put it on a usb stick?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … oaded_file
How did you put it on the usb stick?
When you got the error, did you do
ls /var/lib/pacman/sync
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Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-08-06 23:38:27)

[solved] pacman 4 breaks if there's no /var/lib/pacman/sync/foo.db

Allan had problems with his webhost: http://identi.ca/notice/87871795 After I have added
[allanbrokeit]
Server = http://allanmcrae.com/$repo/$arch
to my pacman.conf, I couldn't use update and install packages anymore:
[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Syu
warning: database file for 'allanbrokeit' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
testing is up to date
community-testing is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'allanbrokeit.db' from allanmcrae.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to update allanbrokeit (download library error)
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error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)
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warning: database file for 'allanbrokeit' does not exist
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)
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error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db'
but works and allows me to update and install stuff.
Is it a feature of pacman 4?
Allan's repo seems to be already back online, so you have to test it with some nonexistent repo & db.
Last edited by karol (2012-01-07 22:48:29)

Dan responded to my e-mail:
Dan McGee wrote:
Yes, this was mostly an intended change.
Note that you can do an -R operation (or anything not requiring sync databases) just fine. However, once we hit any machinery that requires sync databases to be present, we require all configured ones are accounted for. This is for a few reasons:
1) dependency resolving if you have 1 out-of-date database and 4 up-to-date ones, things can get ugly or messed up.
2) integrity- if you insist on a database being signed, we'd rather not proceed with nothing.
3) replay attacks- what you don't fully see in the above situation is we also validate the signature on the database at load time; if that were to fail we'd also bail out. This is so pacman is capable of verifying the expiration time on a database signature; it makes sense to only allow database signatures to be valid for a week at a time so people know they have out-of-date repo metadata.
Closing.

[SOLVED] Pacman failed retrieving file 'core.db' after removing KDE

Hey, I had to remove KDE and foolishly used the -Rsc flag. Now, trying to update yields:
[root@Gal-PC2 gal]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
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I tryed using the -Sy and -Syy flags to update the database, and made sure I am not using ipv6. I think the -Rsc flag might deleted an importent package. I can connect to the net, and I can acess mirrors using http and I can ping the mirrors. The error persists on a large number of mirrors. Any help will be appriciated.
Last edited by Greenstuff (2015-02-08 20:49:24)

Sorry, will do!
The debug printed a lot of the first errors, so I cut them. This is what pacman --Syu --debug show:
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.ds.hj.se/pub/os/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://mirror.lnx.sk/pub/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://mirrors.st.uz/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://mirrors.mithril.org.ua/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://piotrkosoft.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://artfiles.org/archlinux.org/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://linux.cs.nctu.edu.tw/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/ArchLinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: config: new section '(null)'
debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.conf
:: Synchronizing package databases...
debug: url: [url]http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db[/url]
debug: maxsize: 26214400
debug: using time condition: 1422991262
debug: opened tempfile for download: /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db.part (wb)
debug: curl returned error 28 from transfer
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.isoc.org.il : Resolving timed out after 10523 milliseconds
debug: url: [url]http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db[/url]
debug: maxsize: 26214400
debug: using time condition: 1422991262
debug: opened tempfile for download: /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db.part (wb)
EDIT: SOLVED!
Ok, so I did indeed disable ipv6 as I promised, but turns out I put in the GRUB kernel line "ipv6.disable_ipv6=1". Upon re-reading the wiki, turns out this means ipv6 is disabled but tunnels with ipv6 may be opened by programs. I changed to "ipv6.disable=1" and pacman updates away! I hope others will find this usefull. Be careful!
Last edited by Greenstuff (2015-02-08 20:52:45)

[SOLVED] Pacman GPGME error: No data

I recently bought a new computer and, of course, wanted to get away from windows 8 asap. I've installed arch several times before, and this time, from the outset, I've been plagued with GPGME errors. First was during the installation when I tried to install the base system with pacstrap. I solved that using the method here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142798 (essentially delete /var/lib/pacman/sync and then run pacman -Syyu). From there on out, the install proceeded happily. After booting into my system, I attempted to begin downloading and installing things such as openssh, gparted, virt-manager...etc. Now I get the same error that I had before.
pacman -Syyu
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error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update core (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
community
community.sig
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update core (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
multilib
multilib.sig
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update core (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
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error: failed to init transaction (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
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This ran properly, but I was still unable to sync or update pacman. I then tried deleting /var/lib/pacman/sync and updating with the same result.
Next, I tried commenting out the mirrors, as that was mentioned in several posts while perusing the wiki. This still did not work. The next ting I tried was setting the SigLevel in the pacman.conf to Never, which brought about a whole host of different errors when trying to update (Unrecognized archive format error).
After reinitializing the keys again, deleting the /var/lib/pacman/sync folder and attempting another (unsuccessful) pacman -Syyu, and running pacman-key --refresh-keys, I set the SigLevel back to it's default, and decided it might be time to post asking for help. Does anyone have any other ideas that I could try? I've been working on this unsuccessfully for a few hours now, and I'd like to see it up and running.
Thank you all in advance!
Searching the archwiki, I tried these threads for additional help:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1111872 -- had a problem in pacman conf I do not
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169225 --commenting out mirrors did not work
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135310 --- did not help with archive errors
..... and many many more that were totally unrelated despite similar titles to mine
Last edited by ephreal (2014-03-29 23:28:46)

I shutdown my computer, moved to a different network area, and it is now running happily. I have no idea why... perhaps firewall controls? Whatever the reason was, this is no longer happening. Marking as solved.

[SOLVED]pacman problem

I am getting the following error when i try to install/upgrade anything with pacman.
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db'
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this occurred after i removed: package-query, pacman-color, perl-xyne-arch, powerpill and yaourt.
i removed those because when i tried to upgrade pacman itself i was getting the following error
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.5
:: pacman-color: requires pacman=3.4.3
:: perl-xyne-arch: requires pacman<3.5
I am guessing package-query is something i should not have removed?
anyone know how to solve this?
Thanks.
Last edited by murfMan (2011-03-27 04:23:17)

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[Solved]Yaourt sync issue

I installed yaourt according to the instruction here http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en
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Last edited by codetrick (2011-03-04 14:28:03)

I have the same problem. I get it when try to install 'package-query' and 'yaourt' from AUR, but i install it manually.
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./configure --prefix=''
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I find all "/usr/local" substrings in files from yaourt.x.x.x.tar.gz with commands:
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[SOLVED] pacman error: could not open file /var/lib ...

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Last edited by eldragon (2010-04-20 17:25:18)

geniuz wrote:
I don't know if this error occured during an update of right after you've invoked pacman, but in any way synchronizing pacman I think should fix the issue. This is something you might have tried before deleting the file, but then again I don't know when the error occured. If it occured immediately deleting the file would probably be the easiest solution. I would've done the same.
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[Solved] pacman errors out after a hardlock

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I thought I'd share this.

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[SOLVED] Pacman issue after -Syu

Hello guys,
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Last edited by Himari (2010-02-23 03:17:07)

Pacman -Syy did the trick, but I also need to change to another mirror as well, I suppose there was something wrong with the previous mirror.
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