Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-30 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Ok. Tried the patched pacman, but there are still problems. I have pacman > setup to use 3 mirrors. First I tried to get hydrogen (3.24MB). It downloaded > for a bit with the first mirror, then complained that it couldn't retrieve > file. It

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
Update below. On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:06, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry > > > > wrote: > > > Thanks for the link to the bug. > > > > > > Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earl

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Santhosh Joseph
I had the same issue with another package (gnokii I think). I removed the partially downloaded file, changed mirrors and then the updates went through. See if that works for you. Thanks Santhosh Joseph On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > I had problems with ocaml yesterday. A

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry > > 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 proble

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Xavier
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry 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 retur

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 19:26, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry > > 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 th

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Xavier
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry 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, claimi

[arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
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 ocam