Hi! This is what I've encountered today: [root@home ~]# pacman -Syuw :: Synchronizing package databases... current 73,3K 14,6K/s 00:00:05 [#####################] 100% extra 283,0K 8,2K/s 00:00:35 [#####################] 100% error: could not open /var/lib/pacman/community.db.tar.gz: Empty input file: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character error: failed to update community (unexpected system error) error: failed retrieving file 'unstable.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : Unknown FTP error error: failed to synchronize unstable: Unknown FTP error then I just Ctrl-C as it was clear my connection suddenly died Ugly error reporting about unstable.db.tar.gz is not a big deal, but what is baf is community.db.tar.gz - it is created with 0 bytes size. [root@home ~]# ls -l /var/lib/pacman/ total 212 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 61440 2007-04-28 13:43 community -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-04-28 13:42 community.db.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 567 root root 28672 2007-04-28 13:40 current drwxr-xr-x 2020 root root 81920 2007-04-28 13:40 extra drwxr-xr-x 531 root root 24576 2007-04-25 00:27 local drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-04-09 14:55 romashka drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2007-04-25 00:24 testing drwxr-xr-x 61 root root 4096 2007-04-25 00:22 unstable And then: [root@home ~]# pacman -Syuw :: Synchronizing package databases... current is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date unstable 8,9K 43,4K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100% testing 1,7K 14,2M/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100% Of course 0-byte community.db.tar.gz passes datetime check here :-) When connection dies libdownload/libalpm should _not_ create broken db.tar.gz Either it should be valid or not existing (deleted, or better - not created at all). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)