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

[Santhosh Joseph]

I had the same issue with another package (gnokii I think). I removed
the partially downloaded file, changed mirrors and then  the updates
went through.

See if that works for you.

Thanks
Santhosh Joseph

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during the
> updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued
> downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to
> install them, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted
> ocaml as requested, and as I'm on dialup and didn't want to download 38MB of
> ocaml again last night, I temporarily added an IgnorePkg line for it.
>