problem happened while updating today. help me to solve this...

Dharmesh-Dez commented 3 years ago

[ blackarch ~ ]# sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core 625.8 KiB 1340 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% extra 625.8 KiB 2.04 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% community 625.8 KiB 2.78 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% multilib 625.8 KiB 2.66 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% blackarch is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format warning: bladerf: local (2021.03-1) is newer than blackarch (0.9.0-5) warning: hamlib: local (3.3-10) is newer than blackarch (3.3-2) warning: mbelib: local (1.3.0-2) is newer than blackarch (1.3.0-1) warning: osm-gps-map: local (1.2.0-1) is newer than blackarch (1.1.0-3) warning: perl-bytes-random-secure: local (0.29-9) is newer than blackarch (0.29-6) warning: perl-task-weaken: local (1.06-4) is newer than blackarch (1.06-2) warning: perl-yaml-libyaml: local (0.75-6) is newer than blackarch (0.63-1) warning: python-backcall: local (0.2.0-4) is newer than blackarch (0.2.0-3) warning: python-bitstring: local (3.1.7-3) is newer than blackarch (3.1.7-2) warning: python-crc16: local (0.1.1-7) is newer than blackarch (0.1.1-3) warning: python-easyprocess: local (0.3-3) is newer than blackarch (0.3-2) warning: python-flask-socketio: local (5.0.1-1) is newer than blackarch (4.2.1-2) warning: python-httpx: local (0.18.2-1) is newer than blackarch (0.18.1-1) warning: python-inflect: local (5.3.0-1) is newer than blackarch (5.0.2-2) warning: python-jinja-time: local (0.2.0-5) is newer than blackarch (0.2.0-3) warning: python-notify2: local (0.3.1-5) is newer than blackarch (0.3.1-3) warning: python-odfpy: local (1.4.1-4) is newer than blackarch (1.4.1-2) warning: python-plumbum: local (1.7.0-3) is newer than blackarch (1.7.0-1) warning: python-poyo: local (0.5.0-4) is newer than blackarch (0.5.0-3) warning: python-ptrace: local (0.9.8-1) is newer than blackarch (0.9.3-2) warning: python-pyee: local (8.1.0-3) is newer than blackarch (8.1.0-2) warning: python-pypugjs: local (5.9.9-1) is newer than blackarch (5.9.4-2) warning: python-pytesseract: local (0.3.8-1) is newer than blackarch (0.3.7-2) warning: python-r2pipe: local (5.3.0-1) is newer than blackarch (1.5.3-2) warning: python-readability-lxml: local (0.8.1-3) is newer than blackarch (0.8.1-2) warning: python-requests-unixsocket: local (0.2.0-4) is newer than blackarch (0.2.0-3) warning: python-ropper: local (1.13.6-1) is newer than blackarch (1.9.10-1) warning: python-whichcraft: local (0.6.1-4) is newer than blackarch (0.6.1-3) warning: python2-ujson: local (2.0.3-1) is newer than blackarch (1.35-1) :: Replace reaver with blackarch/reaver-wps-fork-t6x? [Y/n] y warning: rtkit: local (0.13-1) is newer than blackarch (0.11-4) warning: ruby-domain_name: local (0.5.20190701-4) is newer than blackarch (0.5.20190701-3) warning: ruby-json: local (2.5.1-3) is newer than blackarch (2.5.1-2) warning: ruby-nokogiri: local (1.11.7-2) is newer than blackarch (1.11.3-2) warning: sbc: local (1.5-2) is newer than blackarch (1.2-1) warning: sslsplit: local (0.5.5-1) is newer than blackarch (0.5.2-1) error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)

zeeshan1991k commented 3 years ago

Same with me. Wasted my whole day. At last reverted to kali. I think some problem with mirror. Downloading some html in database which is cause of this error. I tried different mirrors in mirrorlist to no avail. If you can't update, distro is useless.

ikstream commented 3 years ago

Have you tried googling your problem like arch linux Unrecognized archive format. There are solutions available.

Try -Syyu first
if it doesn't work, delete the problematic databases and do a -Syyu afterwards

noraj commented 3 years ago

cf. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Troubleshooting

Paul-Vandell commented 2 years ago

Hey, i got the same issue even after removing all dbs and re -Syyu. I solved it by changing mirror location from pacman.d/mirrorlist to my country. Also for the blackarch-mirrorlist. Then i re-run the installer for an online repo. It will check it one time and ask you to re-run the installer. Re do the same thing and then it should be ok. Hope it can help.

ikstream commented 2 years ago

The issue seems to be related to an issue with an Arch Linux mirror. See https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/oon3sx/pacman_sync_databases_unrecognized_archive_format/

Removing it solved the issue on the devices I encountered the issue

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