Archinstall failing - GPME error, failed to synchronize all databases.

hedwyn · Yesterday 18:37:07

I'm new to Linux, managed to install Arch on my laptop recently and really like it. Decided to install it on my home PC too but I keep running into this error that I can't find my way around. Sorry if I'm a bit useless, as I said I'm still very new to Linux.

I set Archinstall going with as far as I'm aware all the correct settings in place, it progresses for a while then hits some red text saying:

core                  3.9 kiB  8.29 KiB/s 00:00 [##################} 100%
extra                  3.9 kiB  8.29 KiB/s 00:00 [##################} 100%
error: GPGME error: No datae database after keyring reinit: [' /user/bin/pacman', '-Syy'] exited with abnormal exit code [1]:
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

I've been googling for results and trying everything I found pretty much all day with no luck. The internet connection shouldn't be an issue as I'm using a wired connection, but just to be sure I tried connecting to wifi and running from a laptop hotspot as I saw that can be an issue.
I've tried refreshing my boot drive with a new ISO and using a different etcher which I saw listed as a solution a few times.
A lot of the results I've found on google are irrelevant.

Again, sorry if I'm sharing any of this wrong or I'm a little useless, as I said I'm still pretty new to Linux and this is the first error I've come across that I haven't been able to brute force my way through with a lot of searching through the forum and replicating what I find. (also sorry if the code is a bit off, I have no idea how to copy it across to my laptop so typed it out by hand)

If any of you have the patience to baby me through whatever this problem is I'd be immensely grateful!

Last edited by hedwyn (Today 00:21:20)

ewaller · Yesterday 19:09:20

Welcome to the forums. I'm a little confused as to why you are trying to use sudo. I would assume you are running from the install media, and therefore are already 'root'. Second, I don't know the command pacman-mirrors. There is a package called pacman-mirrorlist that populates /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist when installed.

You did not mention how you ran archinstall. Can you verify that you are running from the install media and what is the version of that install media.

hedwyn · Yesterday 19:47:21

ewaller wrote:

Welcome to the forums. I'm a little confused as to why you are trying to use sudo. I would assume you are running from the install media, and therefore are already 'root'. Second, I don't know the command pacman-mirrors. There is a package called pacman-mirrorlist that populates /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist when installed.
You did not mention how you ran archinstall. Can you verify that you are running from the install media and what is the version of that install media.

I've kind of just been doing whatever replies on forums suggest, which is where I came across those commands, I'm still learning as I go a bit so I'm sure a lot of the things I've tried don't really make sense and have just been a waste of time (I should have come to the forums for help sooner). I assume they must have either been bad information or were in repose to getting the same or a similar error message outside of the installation process?

I'm running archinstall from a USB stick with the archlinux-2026.08.01-x86_64 ISO, set up with Balena Etcher!

hedwyn · Yesterday 23:04:20

Just a quick little addition in case this is valuable info, I just gave it another attempt and took note of an error that appears before getting replaced by the one I included above.

For a moment it reads

 Pacman sync failed with keyring error, attempting keyring reinit

then changes to the error I included in the original post.

killertofus · Yesterday 23:45:45

Pacman-mirrors is a Manjaro specific utility for generating and maintaining the system mirrorlist.

manjaro is not Arch and is not supported here.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/misc.php?action=rules

ewaller · Yesterday 23:54:46

killertofus wrote:

Pacman-mirrors is a Manjaro specific utility for generating and maintaining the system mirrorlist.
manjaro is not Arch and is not supported here.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/misc.php?action=rules

Well that would explain why I had never heard of it.

You will need to ask the folks at Manjaro as we don't know how their distribution is configured.

Edit: Reopened after an appeal. The OP stated they had tried the command because it was found on an online search, and that they truly are installing Arch Linux. Probably why it didn't work

Last edited by ewaller (Today 00:09:56)

hedwyn · Today 00:24:27

ewaller wrote:

killertofus wrote:
Pacman-mirrors is a Manjaro specific utility for generating and maintaining the system mirrorlist.
manjaro is not Arch and is not supported here.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/misc.php?action=rules
Well that would explain why I had never heard of it.
You will need to ask the folks at Manjaro as we don't know how their distribution is configured.
Edit: Reopened after an appeal. The OP stated they had tried the command because it was found on an online search, and that they truly are installing Arch Linux. Probably why it didn't work

Thankyou for reopening! I removed the reference from the top of the post, definitely explains why it didn't work!
Everything I've found on google discussing this issue seems to be from another version of Linux with suggestions that are irrelevant to Arch, there also seems to be a lot of results where the same or similar error has appeared, but not during the installation process, which similarly doesn't help much! Maybe that's why it's proving so difficult to find a solution.

Last edited by hedwyn (Today 00:25:33)

V1del · Today 07:54:48

Moving to the guided installer subforum.

Not really sure here is your clock setup correctly and what mirrors do you sync from? In a chroot what are the contents of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist? As for sharing outputs https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

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