[SOLVED] AUR helper add directories in pacman's cache

kozaki · 2015-06-12 13:47:51

This question might looks idiotic, now I'd feel worse not understanding it in case it alters this system

# pacman -Sc complains about the following directories, which should be files if I understand:
# pacman -Sc

Packages to keep:
  All locally installed packages

Cache directory: /media/medfiles/src/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] y
removing old packages from cache...
    error: could not open file /media/medfiles/src/pkg/logs : Error reading fd 6
    error: could not open file  /media/medfiles/src/pkg/srcpackages : Error reading fd 6
    error: could not open file  /media/medfiles/src/pkg/packages : Error reading fd 6

Similar issue happened to ostroffjh with the answer: try to understand how these files ended up there first.

Looks like these directories were created by installing `keepassx-git`:

 drwxr-xr-x 2 kozaki users 4,0K 29 mai   17:30 /media/medfiles/src/pkg/packages/
-rw-r--r-- 1 kozaki users 424K 29 mai   17:30 keepassx-git-2.0.alpha6.r141.gfc43aa1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

src/logs and src/srcpackages were empty.
Deleting them then « touch » 'em, pacman -Sc complains about

Missing Meta-Data for the package in /media/medfiles/src/pkg/logs

Does this error alters pacman operations? If so can I cure it please, and what should I have done to avoid it happens?

Last edited by kozaki (2015-06-12 17:50:17)

Allan · 2015-06-12 14:02:47

pacman will not give that error message...

kozaki · 2015-06-12 14:25:21

Hi Allan, I translated the error message to English, maybe that comes from it?
Here's the unmodified error when running `pacman -Sc`:

erreur: l’ouverture du fichier /media/medfiles/src/pkg/logs a échoué : Error reading fd 6
erreur: l’ouverture du fichier /media/medfiles/src/pkg/srcpackages a échoué : Error reading fd 6
erreur: l’ouverture du fichier /media/medfiles/src/pkg/packages a échoué : Error reading fd 6

runical · 2015-06-12 14:53:06

Try running

LANG=C

before the command you want to run. This will give you english output.

Last edited by runical (2015-06-12 14:53:22)

Allan · 2015-06-12 15:00:53

They are directories and should not be there. pacman is trying to open all the files in your package cache and fails. When you delete then touch them, pacman opens the files but finds they are not packages.

My guess is some AUR helper did that. Just delete them.

kozaki · 2015-06-12 17:59:09

this explains the "missing metadata"
Thank you Allan.

@runical that's correct ; /me at the club with the laptop atm.

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#1 2015-06-12 13:47:51

[SOLVED] AUR helper add directories in pacman's cache

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