Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

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Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby maciar » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:32 pm

Hello everyone.

Actually I don't know when it has happeened. My pacman seems to be broken. I'm still geting output:

pacman -S sth
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error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/alarm.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/alarm.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/aur.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/aur.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/alarm.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/alarm.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/aur.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/aur.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
...


I have already tried:

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 pacman -Scc

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 pacman -Syy


Removing /var/lib/pacman/sync
and then
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pacman -Syyu


Changing my mirrors using rankmirrors, manually, and still nothing.

Have you got any ideas?
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Re: Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby maciar » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:38 pm

Is it normal that core.db etc. look like .html files?
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Re: Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby crashmaster » Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:34 am

Like HTML files ? That's really not normal.
It looks like your filesystem is (partially) corrupted.
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Re: Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby maciar » Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:41 pm

I have a new clue.

core.db and other .db files in /var/lib/pacman/sync
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I'm using USB Modem as a internet gateway. It is available on 192.168.0.1 ip address or m.home domain. Mayby is it related in some way? If I remenber right, everything has beed ok before I connected USB modem on USB0 interface.
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Re: Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby crashmaster » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:05 am

There has definitely going something totally wrong.
What happens with these .db files in /var/lib/pacman/sync after doing a 'pacman -Syy' ?

Compare the file sizes:

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   28671 22. Jan 00:04 alarm.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   68849 21. Jan 02:28 aur.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2675734 25. Jan 16:02 community.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  169743 25. Jan 11:21 core.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2369379 25. Jan 14:33 extra.db


What does this 'file' command say?
file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db
It should be:
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/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Jan 25 11:21:09 2015, from Unix
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Re: Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby maciar » Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:48 pm

Thanks for reply.

Before, and after pacman -Syy, files look the same:

ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync/
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total 60
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11193 Jun  7  2013 alarm.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11193 Jun  7  2013 aur.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11193 Jun  7  2013 community.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11193 Jun  7  2013 core.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11193 Jun  7  2013 extra.db


file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db
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/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators


No idea what is wrong :/
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Re: Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby WarheadsSE » Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:51 pm

Something is obviously playing middle man. Perhaps your USB modem's interface.

Use wget/curl to look at the result of the url, see what crap is happening.
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Re: Pacman repos - Unrecognized archive format

Postby WarheadsSE » Tue Jun 06, 2017 1:47 pm

Just as an example: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=216204

The wifi connection was hitting landing page, because the user needed to authenticate.
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