On Tuesday 29 September 2009 19:26, Xavier wrote: > 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 Thanks for the link to the bug. Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman package "pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz" , which works with no problems. Then upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem returned. Currently I'm running the earlier version, and have temporarily added pacman to the IgnorePkg list. Thanks for your quick reply. Nigel.
