House Panther :verified_paw:<p>So I had my first ever breakage of <a href="https://goblackcat.social/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArchLinux</span></a>. I couldn’t figure out why when I issued the command pacman -Syu, it couldn’t find any updates. That just doesn’t happen in rolling release distribution. I checked the pacman database for corruption and it was seemingly fine because I could query it. Nevertheless the Arch wiki to the rescue. I rebuilt the database from the log file. But then a weirdness happened. The database reported that I had a newer version of the packages than the ones on the servers. No way. </p><p>I thought my 3 year old install was completely hosed at this point. It turns out that that was a simple fix. I just needed to install a package called reflector to fix my package mirror list. Phew! A complete reinstall would not have been much fun. Thankfully Linux is not like Windows where reinstalling is often not the answer.</p>