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FS#3275 - Running out of diskspace messes up pacman database
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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
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
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DetailsBecause 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
Wednesday, 02 November 2005, 09:07 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
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.