[pacman-dev] "pacman --arch=i686 -Syu" results in "error: GPGME error: No data"

# pacman --arch=i686 -Syu This is clearly not a sensible command, but trying it just to see what happened when using the --arch option out resulted in database corruption, then it was impossible to upgrade and pacman would not function: error: GPGME error: No data error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error) until I did: # rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/* # pacman-key --init # pacman-key --populate archlinux artix # pacman -Syy I tried it again and it did the same thing, and thought you might be interested.