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sevk

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From: CN

Registered: 2017-02-09

Posts: 37

[Solved] pacman -S , Refreshing PackageKit... Error: GDBus.Error

:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/6) Creating system user accounts...
(2/6) Reloading system manager configuration...
(3/6) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(4/6) Refreshing PackageKit...
Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
error: command failed to execute correctly
(5/6) Reloading system bus configuration...
(6/6) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...

I make a new partation , and chroot it , install some package , and copy my /usr into new partation , then install package warnning: file exist , I delete some file , and now :
(4/6) Refreshing PackageKit...
Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit': timed out

Last edited by sevk (2023-12-01 12:36:18)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,118

Re: [Solved] pacman -S , Refreshing PackageKit... Error: GDBus.Error

You generaly don't want to use packagekit on Arch and it's generally broken with more recent pacman updates, I suggest you simply remove packagekit.

sevk

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From: CN

Registered: 2017-02-09

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] pacman -S , Refreshing PackageKit... Error: GDBus.Error

➜  ~ sudo pacman -Rs packagekit
error: target not found: packagekit

➜  ~ sudo pacman -S packagekit
packagekit: /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/man/man1/pkcon.1.gz exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/man/man1/pkmon.1.gz exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.packagekit.policy exists in filesystem
packagekit: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.packagekit.rules exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

➜  ~ sudo pacman -S packagekit  --overwrite '*'
...
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/4) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(3/4) Refreshing PackageKit...
(4/4) Reloading system bus configuration...

OK

➜  ~ sudo pacman -Rs packagekit
...
OK

[Solved]

sevk

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From: CN

Registered: 2017-02-09

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] pacman -S , Refreshing PackageKit... Error: GDBus.Error

Thank you

You generaly don't want to use packagekit on Arch and it's generally broken with more recent pacman updates, I suggest you simply remove packagekit.