FS#17487 - Pacman searches not working

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Leonardo Mateo (kandalf) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 14:18 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 15:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.3.3
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Pacman seems to be broken. Somehow simple searches with known results such as "pacman -Ss kde" or "pacman -Ss grub" return immediately and don't give any results.

Steps to Reproduce:
At some moment, after a system upgrade, try to search some package you know it's there.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 13 December 2009, 15:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 14:26 GMT
Try a "pacman -Syy"
Comment by Leonardo Mateo (kandalf) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 14:59 GMT
Same result. I only get results from the archlinuxfr (http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686) repository.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 15:02 GMT
what mirror are you using and what size are the db's you download with "-Syy"?
Comment by Leonardo Mateo (kandalf) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 15:08 GMT
BTW, I forgot to mention, this is happening in two different computers, and started to happen at different moments each.
Comment by Leonardo Mateo (kandalf) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 15:29 GMT
OK, your last question opened my eyes. The server I was using is:
Server = ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

When I tried to track the databases sizes, I just realized that databases don't get fully downloaded, and that explains the immediate return and no results from searches.

I just switched my repo to one from Brazil (Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/i686) and it is working again.
Sorry for the dumb question, I should have noticed this before.

Thanks a lot.

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