I just saw this: allan at mugen ~ > sudo mv /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db{,.bak} allan at mugen ~ > pacman -Su | wc -l Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n 1148 That is a lot of copies of: error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/allanbrokeit.db' Allan