[pacman-dev] "pacman --arch=i686 -Syu" results in "error: GPGME error: No data"

[Eli Schwartz]

On 6/2/21 7:55 PM, stratus--- via pacman-dev wrote:
> # pacman --arch=i686 -Syu
> This is clearly not a sensible command, but trying it just to see
> what happened when using the --arch option out resulted in database
> corruption, then it was impossible to upgrade and pacman would not
> function:
> error: GPGME error: No data
> error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)
> until I did:
> # rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/*
> # pacman-key --init
> # pacman-key --populate archlinux artix> # pacman -Syy
> I tried it again and it did the same thing, and thought you might be
> interested.


This works fine for me, I got lots of 404 errors for the resulting *.db
downloads and nothing else occurred.

Some people reported on some mirrors that 404 pages were getting
erroneously saved to .part files before going to the next mirror. But I
would not expect this to affect databases since we don't try to resume
downloading a database... I'm not sure how else you could get junk info
in the database files.

Your report is missing necessary debug information: what are the
contents of an example .db and .db.sig which report this error?

Also: what's the entire error, rather than 2 snipped out lines?


-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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