pacman warning: could not get file information

JimDeadlock · 2019-07-22 14:55:11

I wanted to remove unused locales so I installed/ran localepurge, then I had the bright idea of freeing up some disk space by deleting most of the directories under /usr/share/locale which I now realise was a bad idea because pacman always complains about missing file information (see below). I've tried running localegen which put back all the missing stuff under /usr/share/locale but pacman is still complaining. It doesn't seem to have any adverse effects but I'd like to get rid of the annoying warnings.

# sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core                     133.7 KiB  3.26M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 extra                   1629.2 KiB  8.84M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 community                  4.9 MiB  8.90M/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 multilib                 171.1 KiB  8.35M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (5) curl-7.65.3-1  lib32-systemd-242.84-1  systemd-242.84-1
             systemd-libs-242.84-1  systemd-sysvcompat-242.84-1

Total Download Size:    6.39 MiB
Total Installed Size:  25.80 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      -0.09 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 systemd-libs-242.84...   413.2 KiB  5.76M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 systemd-242.84-1-x86_64    4.6 MiB  6.57M/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 curl-7.65.3-1-x86_64     977.7 KiB  8.92M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 systemd-sysvcompat-...     7.6 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 lib32-systemd-242.8...   433.0 KiB  8.46M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
(5/5) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
(5/5) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(5/5) loading package files                        [######################] 100%
(5/5) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
(5/5) checking available disk space                [######################] 100%
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
:: Processing package changes...
(1/5) upgrading systemd-libs                       [######################] 100%
(2/5) upgrading systemd                            [######################] 100%
(3/5) upgrading curl                               [######################] 100%
(4/5) upgrading lib32-systemd                      [######################] 100%
(5/5) upgrading systemd-sysvcompat                 [######################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/9) Updating linux initcpios...
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 5.2.1-arch1-1-ARCH
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
  -> Running build hook: [mdadm_udev]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.2.1-arch1-1-ARCH
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
  -> Running build hook: [mdadm_udev]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
(2/9) Updating journal message catalog...
(3/9) Reloading system manager configuration...
(4/9) Updating udev hardware database...
(5/9) Applying kernel sysctl settings...
(6/9) Creating system user accounts...
(7/9) Creating temporary files...
(8/9) Reloading device manager configuration...
(9/9) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

Trilby · 2019-07-22 15:08:10

Locale-gen is not relevant to this. You manually removed files that are tracked by pacman for the systemd package. So when you update the systemd package, pacman will tell you about the problem.

Have you added these unwanted locales to NoExtract in pacman.conf?

There's nothing wrong with deleting most of the unused paths under /usr/share/locale - I have done so as well. But I also prevent pacman from extracting those files again, otherwise you're not really saving space, just adding lots of disk writes every time you delete them and re-add them again.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-07-22 15:09:41)

JimDeadlock · 2019-07-22 15:11:54

Do you think this will do the trick?

NoExtract   = usr/share/locale/*

Trilby · 2019-07-22 15:33:48

No.

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#1 2019-07-22 14:55:11

pacman warning: could not get file information

#2 2019-07-22 15:08:10

Re: pacman warning: could not get file information

#3 2019-07-22 15:11:54

Re: pacman warning: could not get file information

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Re: pacman warning: could not get file information

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