I went to update my Arch Linux installation this morning, and got this error:
danson@deadlock:$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 614.0 KiB 1438 KiB/s 00:00 [-------------------------------] 100%
extra 614.0 KiB 1498 KiB/s 00:00 [-------------------------------] 100%
community 614.0 KiB 1204 KiB/s 00:01 [-------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
there is nothing to do
After a bit of research, it turns out there is some problem with the mirror list. The list is stored in /etc/pacman.d. The fix is to "simply" generate a new mirror list. A little more research led me to
which is a web page that will generate a new mirror list for you. Uncomment the lines you like, then save it to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, overwriting your old mirrorlist file.
Next, delete the .db files from /var/lib/pacman/sync, then run
pacman -Syyuand new .db files will be generated and the system update should work fine.
2 comments:
Thanks for the instructions. Helped me finally update my system.
Thank you. Saved my homeserver.
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