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kyngs

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Registered: 2022-10-16

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[SOLVED] Pacman spams the log with warnings

Most pacman subcommands spam my log with: warning: package_name: unknown key '%INSTALLED_DB%' in local database
Some of the packages printed are not even installed at all. (EDIT: This is not true. I have thought this because I've never installed gnome, but it seems that lutris has gnome-desktop as it's dependency. Just why?)
Here's the whole log for pacman -Syu: https://pastebin.com/PFNL7cKz

Rebuilding the database would probably fix the issue, but I want to avoid that as the process seems hacky at best: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … l_database
Any ideas?

Last edited by kyngs (2024-03-23 14:53:37)

Floats

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman spams the log with warnings

I just reinstalled everything with

# pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -

All the packages were in the cache anyway, so nothing had to be downloaded.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman spams the log with warnings

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pac … 4b12eeab54
https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/commen … sibly_add/

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kyngs

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Registered: 2022-10-16

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman spams the log with warnings

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pac … 4b12eeab54
https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/commen … sibly_add/

Thanks.
Here is the one-liner from the reddit post for anyone interested:

sudo find /var/lib/pacman/local/ -type f -name "desc" -exec sed -i '/^%INSTALLED_DB%$/,+2d' {} \;