FS#3275 - Running out of diskspace messes up pacman database

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Sten Larsson (Stonebone) - Monday, 03 October 2005, 09:33 GMT
Last edited by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Sunday, 16 October 2005, 04:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Because of libtoolslay a big amount of free disk space was required to perform an upgrade using pacman -Syu. There were 456.4 MB of packages to download. I ran out of diskspace and the last output from pacman was:

[...]
installing gnome-common...
could not extract .INSTALL: No space left on device
errors occurred while installing gnome-common
db_write: No space left on device
error updating database for gnome-common!


Then after freeing some diskspace I tried to run pacman again with this result (only):

% sudo pacman -Su
error: /var/lib/pacman/local/-/desc: No such file or directory


Pacman is now in a non-working state and I don't know how to repair it.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Wednesday, 02 November 2005, 09:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Monday, 17 October 2005, 02:16 GMT
Hi Sten,

Since pacman only updates one entry at a time, it's likely that you're only missing one package entry from your database. Try removing that '-' directory and see if that helps.

Comment by Sten Larsson (Stonebone) - Monday, 17 October 2005, 08:50 GMT
I had to remove both the '-' directory and 'gnome-common'.

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