[arch-general] System upgrade problems

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Louis Brazeau <lbrazeau at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Raeven K.Bathory <kumyco at nrk.cc> wrote:
>> what happens if you remove the possibly corrupted cached file
>> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xextproto-7.0.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
>>
>
> The line :
>
>  debug: setting download size 0 for pkg xextproto
>
> changes to :
>
>  debug: setting download size 41286 for pkg xextproto
>
> but the error message remains.
>
> So the problem package must be the next one to be checked. Is there a
> way to see the list of package that pacman -Syu is checking?

Here are two relevant clips of the pacman.log:

debug: 'weex' not found in sync db => no upgrade
debug: new version of 'xextproto' found (7.0.3-1 => 7.0.3-2)
debug: adding package xextproto-7.0.3-2 to the transaction targets
debug: 'xfce4-time-out-plugin' not found in sync db => no upgrade
debug: new version of 'xorg-twm' found (1.0.4-1 => 1.0.4-2)
debug: adding package xorg-twm-1.0.4-2 to the transaction targets
debug: new version of 'xtrans' found (1.2.1-1 => 1.2.2-1)
debug: adding package xtrans-1.2.2-1 to the transaction targets
debug: new version of 'xvidcore' found (1.1.3-1 => 1.1.3-2)
debug: adding package xvidcore-1.1.3-2 to the transaction targets
debug: 'yaourt' not found in sync db => no upgrade
resolving dependencies...

and:

debug: checkdeps: package xextproto-7.0.3-2
debug: checkdeps: missing dependency 'inputproto' for package 'xextproto'
debug: pulling dependency inputproto (needed by xextproto)
debug: checkdeps: package xorg-twm-1.0.4-2

>From this, either "xorg-twm" or "inputproto" would be next in the
targets list, meaning pacman might be failing on one of those...

-Dan