My community data file is broken and it doesn't repear with -Syyu

[Jose_Rondon]

Hi everyone, I was trying to update my machine and it didn’t work, I got this message:

joser @ JERO1 ~] $ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for joser:
:: Synchronizing the package databases ...
  core is up to date
  extra is up to date
  community is up to date
  multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system update ...
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
... the system is already up to date.

I though I could use -Syyu to fix the “community” file but it didn’t work:

:: Synchronizing the package databases ...
 core 166.4 KiB 33.9 KiB / s 00:05 [#####################] 100%
 extra 1964.7 KiB 31.4 KiB / s 01:03 [######################] 100%
 community 6.6 MiB 23.9 KiB / s 04:42 [######################] 100%
 multilib 178.9 KiB 27.6 KiB / s 00:06 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system update ...
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
error: could not read database 'community' (Damaged tar archive)
... the system is already up to date.

There were many more “… error: could not read database ‘community’ (Damaged tar archive)” but I didn’t want to paste all that.

What can I do to fix this problem? Thanks for the help in advance ^_^!.

PS: The logs were translated with google chrome from spanish to english for practical reassons.

[Wollie]

Have a look here:

Error with pacman database

Remove your database $ sudo rm -f /var/lib/pacman/sync/* Then rerun pacman $ sudo pacman -Syyu If that does not work either it could be a mirror issue and you should update your mirror pool and list (servers respond with a 404 page on errors) - you can check the content of the community.db file - it should not contain any html code $ less /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db Rebuild your mirror pool and mirror list $ sudo pacman-mirrors --continent the rerun pacman $ sudo pacman -Syyu

Manjaro update issue

[Jose_Rondon]

Hmmm… deleting the files didn’t work, I’m rebuilding the mirror pool now to see what happen…

[Jose_Rondon]

Great!!! Rebuilding the mirror pool worked!

Thanks for your help, and so fast I have to say :), the manjaro community team is always awesome.

Thanks again and have a nice day!