It would seem I have something misconfigured on my machine. I haven't noticed anything on the mailing list or on the Arch news about this, checked the bug tracker and followed the links to the Python mailing list, and I'm still a little confused. Below is an example of what I get back from pacman -Sy and pacman -Su, the rest is in a pastebin at http://pastebin.com/3dBxsGvE. myra@gandalf ../repos/extra-x86_64]:pacsu (equivalent to pacman -Su) :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: pacman: local (4.0.0rc1-1) is newer than core (3.5.4-4) :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-gobject2? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-gtkhtml2? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-gtkspell? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-httplib2? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-libgnome? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-nose? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-numpy? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-pip? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-pyopenssl? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-pyqt? [Y/n] y --- adnauseum resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: python2-nose and python-nose are in conflict The adnauseum got 1455 line of repetition through pygobject and pygobject-devel. Based on the Python mailing list referenced in FS25747 on the bug tracker, I'm not sure what to do next. You'll notice in the pastebin I stopped hitting the Y and just pressed enter (yes I really did that). No problems prior to today, but it seems as though I've borked something up. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!