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