Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote:

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry

wrote:

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Thanks for the link to the bug.

Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman package "pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz" , which works with no problems. Then upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem returned.

Currently I'm running the earlier version, and have temporarily added pacman to the IgnorePkg list.

Thanks for your quick reply.

That is bad news. The bug I fixed should exist since pacman 3.3.0 (since we moved to libfetch). It is quite strange that you cannot reproduce the problem with that.

Any chances you could try the patch I posted in the bug report ?

You will have to get pacman 3.3.1 PKGBUILD though abs, and edit the PKGBUILD to apply that patch.

I'll have a go at that tomorrow, as I'm currently downloading ocaml for the second time (on dialup), and don't want to mess with pacman until that's installed. Nigel.