[pacman-dev] [arch-general] System upgrade problems

[Nathan Jones]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:48:32AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Louis Brazeau <lbrazeau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Can you run with --debug and show us the output?
> >
> > Aaron Griffin is trying to help me with my problem! I feel blessed :)
> >
> > The output of --debug is quite long so I thought I'd better put it on
> > pastebin. Here's the link :
> >
> >   http://pastebin.com/m3c97b0aa
> 
> Hmm, here is the relevant code from lib/libalpm/sync.c. You can see
> this error gets thrown if filename is null, which means
> alpm_pkg_get_filename() returned null on that particular package.

You can try running this command to see if any packages do not have a
filename field:

find /var/lib/pacman/sync -name desc -exec grep -L FILENAME {} \;