This is similar to what Travis reported, but instead of happening on packages that exist it happens when pacman3 can't find the package in the db. For example: [~] james->monkeybox : sudo pacman3 -S random_junk --debug=1 [20:23:18] debug: config: new section 'options' [20:23:18] debug: config: logfile: /var/log/pacman.log [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/passwd [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/group [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/shadow [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/sudoers [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/fstab [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/raidtab [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/mdadm.conf [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/ld.so.conf [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/inittab [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/rc.conf [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/rc.local [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/modprobe.conf [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/modules.conf [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/lilo.conf [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: boot/grub/menu.lst [20:23:18] debug: config: noupgrade: etc/mkinitrd.conf [20:23:18] debug: config: holdpkg: pacman [20:23:18] debug: config: holdpkg: glibc [20:23:18] debug: config: new section 'current' [20:23:18] debug: opening database 'current' [20:23:18] debug: config: including /etc/pacman3.d/current [20:23:18] debug: attempt to re-register the 'current' database, using existing [20:23:18] debug: config: new section 'current' [20:23:18] debug: attempt to re-register the 'current' database, using existing [20:23:18] debug: config: new section 'extra' [20:23:18] debug: opening database 'extra' [20:23:18] debug: config: including /etc/pacman3.d/extra [20:23:18] debug: attempt to re-register the 'extra' database, using existing [20:23:18] debug: config: new section 'extra' [20:23:18] debug: attempt to re-register the 'extra' database, using existing [20:23:18] debug: config: new section 'community' [20:23:18] debug: opening database 'community' [20:23:18] debug: config: including /etc/pacman3.d/community [20:23:18] debug: attempt to re-register the 'community' database, using existing [20:23:18] debug: config: new section 'community' [20:23:18] debug: attempt to re-register the 'community' database, using existing [20:23:18] debug: opening database 'local' [20:23:18] debug: loading package cache (infolevel=0) for repository 'current' [20:23:18] debug: loading package cache (infolevel=0) for repository 'extra' [20:23:18] debug: loading package cache (infolevel=0) for repository 'community' [20:23:18] debug: package cache reloaded (infolevel=0x2) for repository 'current' [20:23:18] debug: package cache reloaded (infolevel=0x2) for repository 'extra' [20:23:18] debug: package cache reloaded (infolevel=0x2) for repository 'community' [20:23:18] debug: returning error 31 from _alpm_sync_addtarget : could not find or read package [20:23:18] debug: loading group cache for repository 'current' [20:23:19] debug: package cache reloaded (infolevel=0x1) for repository 'current' [20:23:19] debug: loading group cache for repository 'extra' [20:23:19] debug: package cache reloaded (infolevel=0x1) for repository 'extra' [20:23:19] debug: loading group cache for repository 'community' [20:23:19] debug: package cache reloaded (infolevel=0x1) for repository 'community' error: 'random_junk': not found in sync db memory clobbered before allocated block Aborted Yet, (credit goes to Dan for finding this) doing the samething with pacman3.static works perfectly. ~ Jamie / yankees26