Hello Archers, Recently I've been receiving errors from Pacman when I attempt to install, remove, search or perform anything with Pacman.
This is the error that I receive: "error: /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-2.9.8-1/desc: No such file or directory" I first encountered the error while compiling a package from the AUR. It complained that my system was unable to satisfy dependencies, when I knew that the dependencies were installed. I did some searching around and it appeared that my local database may be corrupted? At any rate, one of the posters suggested to forcefully reinstall the offending package, which I did. Upon doing so, it appeared that I had found a solution. However, after rebooting my system the error will appear again. Upon further searching, another poster suggested that I should remove the offending directory, and then reinstall the package. When I attempt to remove the directory, I get a kernel panic and my entire system freezes. Since there is so much output, I've take a photo of the error (X just freezes). http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rimg0243we5.jpg (1280x1024 - 606kb) I'm using the stock Arch 2.6.18 kernel, ReiserFS and LVM2 with my root partition (including /var). Here is a copy of my pacman.log. The error started occurring on the 20th. http://tatey.com/random/pastebin/pacman.log The file system check on boot-up shows that the partition is clean. However, I have noticed that from time to time after installing/updating various packages using Pacman, the file system check will show up "not clean" and replay the journals. I can still continue to use Pacman, provided I force reinstall it prior to performing any installations/upgrades/removals/etc. I've tried a post in the forums without much luck, perhaps someone on this mailing list may be able to offer any assistance or suggestions. Cheers, Tate _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
