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

[Xavier]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> 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, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted
> ocaml as requested, and as I'm on dialup and didn't want to download 38MB of
> ocaml again last night, I temporarily added an IgnorePkg line for it.
>
> Ran pacman -Su again, and all the updates apart from ocaml, and also gnupg2,
> which couldn't be found, were installed.
>
> Today I went to install the ocaml update, having removed it from the IgnorePkg
> line. It starts to download, but then throws an error as below.
>
> error:  error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ocaml....'  :Bad address
>
> Harddrive partition is redlining, and the partly downloaded ocaml file shows
> as 2GB size.
>
> Any ideas on a fix for this problem?
>
> As an aside, pacman was updated, but not before the other updates, in case
> that is what has caused the problem.
>
> Nigel.
>

See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16359