Could not open file sudo-1.8.27-1/desc

Jphillips · 2019-09-04 09:19:28

I keep getting the following error when trying to install or update:

$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for zendoer: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                   1707.7 KiB  3.58M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 community                  4.9 MiB  14.0M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/sudo-1.8.27-1/desc: No such file or directory
looking for conflicting packages..

This also happens when installing or using yay for AUR packages.

Primarily I want to make sure this isn't some critical error or vulnerability, particularly because it involves sudo. But it'd also be nice to fix it so that this doesn't display all the time.

V1del · 2019-09-04 09:27:26

That's just your pacman cache, potentially from an interrupted update. Touch the file or remove the directory in question and run another update.

Last edited by V1del (2019-09-04 09:27:55)

WorMzy · 2019-09-04 09:29:02

Your pacman database has gotten damaged somehow (possible causes: accidental deletion, filesystem-level corruption, hardware fault). Rule out the latter two before proceeding (check your drive(s) with smartctl and if that looks good run a fsck/check on the filesystem). Once you're happy that your hardware and filesystem are stable, remove the faulty database entry

# rm -r /var/lib/pacman/local/sudo-1.8.27-1

then recreate it with

# pacman -U --dbonly /var/cache/pacman/pkg/sudo-1.8.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Then check for any other problems with

# pacman -Qkk >/dev/null

Finally complete that system upgrade you started.

Jphillips · 2019-09-04 10:07:23

Thanks for the reply. I did have a drive corruption issue earlier this week due to my computer being unplugged while going into hibernation. I had run fsck to fix the disk, but that is most likely the culprint. I just deleted and recreated the sudo package, and when I check for other problems I get a list of wwarnings:

$ sudo pacman -Qkk >/dev/null
warning: accountsservice: /var/lib/AccountsService/icons (Permissions mismatch)
warning: java-runtime-common: /usr/lib/jvm/default (Symlink path mismatch)
warning: java-runtime-common: /usr/lib/jvm/default (Modification time mismatch)
warning: java-runtime-common: /usr/lib/jvm/default-runtime (Symlink path mismatch)
warning: java-runtime-common: /usr/lib/jvm/default-runtime (Modification time mismatch)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_ppc64.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_riscv-0.176.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_riscv.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_s390-0.176.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_s390.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sh-0.176.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sh.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sparc-0.176.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_sparc.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_tilegx-0.176.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_tilegx.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_x86_64-0.176.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libelf: /usr/lib/elfutils/libebl_x86_64.so (No such file or directory)
warning: libseccomp: /usr/share/doc/libseccomp (No such file or directory)
warning: libseccomp: /usr/share/doc/libseccomp/CHANGELOG (No such file or directory)
warning: libseccomp: /usr/share/doc/libseccomp/README.md (No such file or directory)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.alias (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.alias (Size mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.alias.bin (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.alias.bin (Size mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.builtin.bin (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.dep (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.dep (Size mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.dep.bin (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.dep.bin (Size mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.devname (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.softdep (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.symbols (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.symbols (Size mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.symbols.bin (Modification time mismatch)
warning: linux: /usr/lib/modules/5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH/modules.symbols.bin (Size mismatch)
warning: shadow: /usr/bin/newgidmap (Permissions mismatch)
warning: shadow: /usr/bin/newuidmap (Permissions mismatch)
warning: vlc: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat (Modification time mismatch)
warning: vlc: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat (Size mismatch)

But I don't know what the default output of this command is, so it's unclear if I should be concerned with any of these.

Last edited by Jphillips (2019-09-04 10:07:49)

V1del · 2019-09-04 10:29:17

You should probably reinstall libelf and libseccomp, and might want to fix the permission mismatches, the rest can be normal.

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#1 2019-09-04 09:19:28

Could not open file sudo-1.8.27-1/desc

#2 2019-09-04 09:27:26

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