ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz 24 Jan pacman issue

[Triode]

ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz from yesterday seems to give problems updating with pacman - is there a problem with the database vs files installed in it?

[root@soa-rpi ~]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
extra is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
community 2.6 MiB 4.81M/s 00:01 [###########################################################################] 100%
alarm is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
aur is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
[root@soa-rpi ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
extra is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
community is up to date
alarm is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
aur is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-4.2.0-5/desc: No such file or directory
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/attr-2.4.47-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/bash-4.3.033-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/ca-certificates-20140923-9/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/ca-certificates-cacert-20140824-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/ca-certificates-mozilla-3.17.3-2/desc: No such file or directory

This then errors out and does not do any updates.

[Triode]

For the moment I am working round this with:

pacman -Sy
pacman -S $(pacman -Qeq) --noconfirm --force

after an install - but it should not be necessary and takes some time... Would be good to have a rootfs which does not need this..

[Triode]

I understand this problem now. Looks like my installer is broken..

[pepedog]

You also saw the ro issue? viewtopic.php?f=31&t=8321

[Triode]

Yep - had the read only issue ok.

My problem was that the tail end of the archive was being lost by my installer - due to it being more than 50% of the free memory and the default limit on tmpfs being 50% of memory...