[arch-general] Pacman fails to update?

[Martín Cigorraga]

oops, sorry for the top-posting


2010/7/29, Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600 at gmail.com>:
> Hi guys and thanks for your time.
>
> @ Rafael: already did that but I narrowed the error, see below.
> @ Øyvind: done: http://pastebin.org/430438 . As you see, everything
> seems allright :p
> @ Allan: /var/lib/pacman/local seems allrigth too, here is it's
> content: http://pastebin.org/430449 .
>
>
> One thing I just noticed -alas, my mind's on the cloud, literally- is
> pacman isn't actually downloading/updating repos, look out this
> output: http://pastebin.org/430461
>
> Damn, I'm pretty sure that mean something, at least pacman isn't
> working at it should be.
> I'm researching on this but still no clue on what happening here...
>
> Martín
>
> 2010/7/29, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>> On 30/07/10 04:53, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
>>> But the weirdest thing is afeter issue those orders I did a $ packer
>>> -Syu to update AUR packages and guess what? I remember I had something
>>> like 140 packages installed from AUR but this time packer wanted to
>>> check for 1272 packages lol
>>
>> Hmmm...   do you have anything in /var/lib/pacman/local?  It sounds like
>> you have lost your package database somehow.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
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