[pacman-dev] Community repository trouble in Pacman

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Vladyslav Chyzhevskyi
<coirius at coirius.com> wrote:
> Hello, I have a problem with Community repository in Pacman.
> Forever, when I try to update my system, or to install packages from
> [Community], Pacman return next error message:
>
> [coirius at atom ~]$ sudo pacman -S hwinfo
> error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: (Empty
> error message)
> error: target not found: hwinfo
>
> Who knowns how to resorve this trouble?

This is much more of a question for arch-general or the forums then
here on the development list, but you should probably try `pacman -Sy`
first. If that doesn't produce any output saying it is updating
community, then something else is wrong.

-Dan