[arch-dev-public] community.files pacman database corrupt

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Mon Aug 30 20:35:39 UTC 2021


Thanks for looking into this. It's still weird but let's see if it
will happen again. I hope it wasn't a memory issue and we can just
blame Allan. ;-)

Greetings,

Pierre

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 3:05 PM Evangelos Foutras
<evangelos at foutrelis.com> wrote:
>
> "Fixed" by repo-adding ipguard to community. I have kept a copy of the
> broken files db if anyone wants it, but it seems that
> "ipguard-1.04-6/desc" had 1230 NUL bytes instead of 1230 bytes of
> package details.
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 13:58, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public
> <arch-dev-public at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since Aug 30 07:17:11 CEST the "community.files" database
> > (repos.archlinux.org/community/os/x86_64/community.files) seems to be
> > corrupted. The package "ipguard-1.04-6" has an empty "desc" file. The
> > "files" file has content though. Also the regular "community.db" file
> > does seem fine. I also do not see that package being updated or moved.
> >
> > I did not try to regenerate the file yet to not make it harder to find
> > the issue.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Pierre



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