On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > That is bad news. The bug I fixed should exist since pacman 3.3.0 (since we moved to libfetch). It is quite strange that you cannot reproduce the problem with that. Any chances you could try the patch I posted in the bug report ? You will have to get pacman 3.3.1 PKGBUILD though abs, and edit the PKGBUILD to apply that patch.