I'm hoping this is a temporary issue, but I got a whole bunch of nonsense when I went to do a pacman update today. It also offerred to upgrade Pacman (to a version from testing) and I hoped that would work. However, the same problems persist (so at least I can not blame it on the new Pacman, as I would happily roll back to avoid these issues).

System-wise I am running a regularly-updated Arch install (installed with 0.6-base, have upgraded since then) which has been up for a few days now and this is the first time Pacman has failed in such a manner. Here is a log of my last Pacman session (also posted in the "Pacman" forum):
I don't know what's going on but something is seriously a-bork:

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03:02:59 <+delysid|~> sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
gnustep [/var/abs/gnustep.repo/] 100% LOCAL
testing [################] 100% 1K 4.8K/s 00:00:00
current [################] 100% 39K 51.5K/s 00:00:00
extra [################] 100% 136K 223.0K/s 00:00:00
unstable [################] 100% 1K 5.7K/s 00:00:00
error: could not cwd to /tur/bfinch/: 550 /tur/bfinch/: No such file or directory

failed to synchronize bfinch
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize contrasutra
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize deepfreeze
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize dp
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize hapy
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize kritoke
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize roberto
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize staging
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize twm
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize whatah
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize xentac
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize brice
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
failed to synchronize tpowa
:: j2re-1.5.0_beta1-1: local version is newer
:: j2sdk-1.5.0_beta1-2: local version is newer
:: mplayer-1.0pre3.2-1: ignoring package upgrade (1.0pre4-1)
:: prelink-20021002-2: local version is newer
:: Above packages will be skipped. To manually upgrade use 'pacman -S <pkg>'

Targets: binutils-2.15-1t1 cvsup-16.1h-2t1 glibc-2.3.3-1t1 initscripts-0.6-9
iputils-021109-1t1 rhythmbox-0.8.3-1 sox-12.17.4-3

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y

:: Retrieving packages from testing...
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
error: failed to retrieve some files from testing

:: Retrieving packages from current...
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
initscripts-0.6-9 [################] 100% 7K 3.5K/s 00:00:02

:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
rhythmbox-0.8.3-1 [################] 100% 1206K 67.4K/s 00:00:17
sox-12.17.4-3 [################] 100% 238K 56.7K/s 00:00:04
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After downloading those files it does not install them (presumably because it was unable to download some dependencies).

I haven't seen any other posts about this so perhaps this problem just arose?