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https://bbs.archlinux.org – It's pacman-optimize - run 'pacman-optimize -h' to get some more info or 'less /usr/bin/pacman-optimize' to get the details.What is tarred==> Tar'ing up /var/lib/pacman... it's the default DBPath.Where -> I think to some temp location and than back ==> Rotating database into place.Check what's inside /usr/bin/pacman-optimize to know for sure.Edit:workdir=$(mktemp -d /tmp/pacman-optimize.XXXXXXXXXX) <snip> bsdtar -czf "$workdir/pacman-db.tar.gz" ./My guess was right, it's creating a temporary tarball in your /tmp. ka (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 09/05/2011

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pacman can't find pacman 1 year 48 weeks ago

So I haven't used my laptop in a while.

Here is my pacman.conf in separate screens: GNU nano 2.2.6 File: /etc/pacman.conf

# # /etc/pacman.conf # # See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

# # GENERAL OPTIONS # [options] # The following paths are commented out with their default values listed. # If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths. #Ro

pacman upgrade fail 1 year 3 weeks ago

What do you run 'sudo pacman -S pacman' in the first place? Have you tried running just 'sudo pacman -Syu'?What's the output ofstat -c %s $(find /var/lib/pacman/local -name "pacman-4*")/files?

karol https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25522

2012-04-28T08:52:41Z

This happens when pacman is already running somewhere else, sometimes because of appset-qt.If you wait a minute and try again and it still says that, just do sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman -S amarokEn Español:Este ocurre cuando pacman está ejecutando en otro lugar, a veces a causa de Appset-Qt.Si usted espera un minuto y vuelva a intentarlo y dice todavia, ejecutasudo

Next update you'll probably have pacman stop with conflicting files for talloc.  This was an old package, that has symlinks, which pacman does not recognize as belonging to talloc, so best procedure:sudo pacman -Syu  > fail messagesudo pacman -S talloc --forcesudo pacman -Syu

Hello, i am am quite new in the forum so hopefully i found and investigated all areas to not post a new topic that is solved somewhere.I am using arch on a 64 bit installation. I Installed yesterday skype by using "pacman -S skype".

Seems you broke your pacman...First show your /etc/pacman.conf, no idea how you activated unstable to get this result.  Also show your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, to make sure it was not a broken mirror that caused this.And show your /var/log/pacman.log from the last few days, including the last update, that brought in new pacman, but not new libarchive.

asi queda todo habilitado:[testing] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[lib32] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[core] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[platform] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[desktop] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[apps] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[games] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[unstable] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

sudo pacman -Syu 1 year 3 weeks ago

I had also the problem with pacman.conf. There are be two [option] sections in that file.