OK, I've looked at this machine, where pacman crashed, and found no corruption in db. Only ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz.part and /tmp/pacman.lck was left. So, I tried pacman -Su and got exactly the same crash. :-) Then i run pacman -Svu (still pacman 2.9.8) and . . . connecting to archlinux.antesis.org:80 connect: Connection refused error: cannot connect to archlinux.antesis.org *** glibc detected *** pacman: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0864d6e8 *** . . . phrakture, you was right about antesis! Then I commented archlinux.antesis.org from /etc/pacman.d/{current,extra} and pacman hanged at connecting to ftp.kegep.tuc.gr:21 but after a minute or more continued and ended with error: failed to retrieve some files from current I'll try to do pacman -Su with pacman3. Any suggestions how to compile pacman3 so it could work with pacman2 simultaneously? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)