[arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry
>
> <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> > Thanks for the link to the bug.
> >
> > Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman
> > package "pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz" , which works with no problems.
> > Then upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem returned.
> >
> > Currently I'm running the earlier version, and have temporarily added
> > pacman to the IgnorePkg list.
> >
> > Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> That is bad news. The bug I fixed should exist since pacman 3.3.0
> (since we moved to libfetch).
> It is quite strange that you cannot reproduce the problem with that.
>
> Any chances you could try the patch I posted in the bug report ?
>
> You will have to get pacman 3.3.1 PKGBUILD though abs, and edit the
> PKGBUILD to apply that patch.

I'll have a go at that tomorrow, as I'm currently downloading ocaml for the 
second time (on dialup), and don't want to mess with pacman until that's 
installed.

Nigel.