On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during the > updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued > downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to > install them, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted > ocaml as requested, and as I'm on dialup and didn't want to download 38MB of > ocaml again last night, I temporarily added an IgnorePkg line for it. > > Ran pacman -Su again, and all the updates apart from ocaml, and also gnupg2, > which couldn't be found, were installed. > > Today I went to install the ocaml update, having removed it from the IgnorePkg > line. It starts to download, but then throws an error as below. > > error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ocaml....' :Bad address > > Harddrive partition is redlining, and the partly downloaded ocaml file shows > as 2GB size. > > Any ideas on a fix for this problem? > > As an aside, pacman was updated, but not before the other updates, in case > that is what has caused the problem. > > Nigel. > See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16359
