First of all, Happy New Year, Archers! Too bad 0.8 didn't make it in time to
become a New Year's gift of choice. But, as they say, better later than
unstable. ;-)
Anyhow, I read this earlier today:
On Monday 01. January 2007. 18:17, Dale Blount wrote:
> Try running pacman-optimize.
>
> Dale
So, I tried running pacman-optimize, just to see if it would speed up the
database (or whatever it speeds up), and I even got a bonus...
I ran pacman -Syu. Sure it responded faster than before, but with this:
-----------------------------------screen output-----------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] archbunny]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
current [################] 100% 71K 11.7K/s
00:00:06
extra [################] 100% 272K 13.8K/s
00:00:19
:: unstable is up to date
:: community is up to date
danimoth [################] 100% 2K 3.8K/s
00:00:00
Targets: cdrkit-1.1.1-1 libldap-2.3.31-1 libmysqlclient-5.0.27-1
mysql-clients-5.0.27-1 mysql-5.0.27-2 ntp-4.2.4-1
Total Package Size: 16.6 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages from current...
warning: failed to get filesize for cdrkit-1.1.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading cdrkit-1.1.1-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550
Failed to open file.
warning: failed to get filesize for libldap-2.3.31-1.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading libldap-2.3.31-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550
Failed to open file.
warning: failed to get filesize for libmysqlclient-5.0.27-1.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading libmysqlclient-5.0.27-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org:
550 Failed to open file.
warning: failed to get filesize for mysql-clients-5.0.27-1.pkg.tar.gz
failed downloading mysql-clients-5.0.27-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org:
550 Failed to open file.
warning: failed to get filesize for mysql-5.0.27-2.pkg.tar.gz
-------------------------------end screen output-----------------------------
Also, it didn't upgrade the packages and it would probably just go on
splitting the messages forever if I hadn't hit Ctrl+C. But when I ran it
twice in a row, it found new (and completely different) upgrades (!!!) and
split the same message for each package, again until I hit Ctrl+C. Finally, I
ran it for the third time, and it apparently thought the upgrades were
installed. Now, I'm not sure if the packages were already upgraded yesterday.
I checked the versions with pacman -Qs, and the installed packages in the
database are the same as the upgrades pacman was trying to install. For
example:
-----------------------------------screen output-----------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] archbunny]# pacman -Qs mysql
local/libmysqlclient 5.0.26-1
MySQL client libraries
local/mysql 5.0.27-1
A fast SQL database server
local/mysql-clients 5.0.26-1
MySQL client libraries
-------------------------------end screen output-----------------------------
Later, I installed one package just to make sure the db was okay (if alive at
all), and the results were ok:
-----------------------------------screen output-----------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] archbunny]# pacman -S wmii
Targets: wmii-3.1-3
Total Package Size: 0.1 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages from community...
wmii-3.1-3 [################] 100% 72K 11.6K/s
00:00:06
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
installing wmii... done.
-------------------------------end screen output-----------------------------
It seems everything is back to normal, but it sure didn't look good at the
beginning. Just thought you should all know about this.
I tried running pacman-optimize again, just to make sure. This time the error
persists. It seems it cannot open the files glibmm-2.12.4-1 and
libwnck-2.16.2-1 on any of the Arch mirrors, so it cycles through the list
(persumably until it reaches the end of the list).
Any suggestions about how to troubleshoot this one?
Best,
Branko
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