From: Christian Hesse On filesize exceeded error pacman leaves a .part file in cache dir, resulting in this error on next try: error: failed to commit transaction (wrong or NULL argument passed) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Unlink the file on error to avoid this. --- lib/libalpm/dload.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/dload.c b/lib/libalpm/dload.c index c5a56b5..01fe57e 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/dload.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/dload.c @@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ static int curl_download_internal(struct dload_payload *payload, /* handle the interrupt accordingly */ if(dload_interrupted == ABORT_OVER_MAXFILESIZE) { payload->curlerr = CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED; + payload->unlink_on_fail = 1; handle->pm_errno = ALPM_ERR_LIBCURL; /* use the 'size exceeded' message from libcurl */ _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_ERROR, -- 2.1.2