[SOLVED] Error when running sudo pacman -Syu

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 00:46:11

I tried to update but it said
" error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/gcc-11.1.0-1/desc: No such file or directory
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: could not fully load metadata for package gcc-11.1.0-1
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package) "

Last edited by Ste632 (2021-12-13 17:33:10)

Allan · 2021-12-13 00:56:55

touch that file, then reinstall gcc.

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 01:08:39

Allan wrote:

touch that file, then reinstall gcc.

a wall of text appears of file locations saying this file exists in filesystem and errors occured

Trilby · 2021-12-13 01:55:43

Please post the actual output. Most immediately relevant, are these errors coming from just a single or a few packages, or from most / all? In the latter case you have extensive db corruption. What led up to this? Was there a power outage during a pacman operation? Anything else out of the ordinary?

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 01:58:15

Trilby wrote:

Please post the actual output. Most immediately relevant, are these errors coming from just a single or a few packages, or from most / all? In the latter case you have extensive db corruption. What led up to this? Was there a power outage during a pacman operation? Anything else out of the ordinary?

just the gcc package i was just browsing and the kde plasma discover told me that there was updates so i went and used sudo pacman -Syu and this happened only for gcc the output is too long but here is it
https://pastebin.com/KX1QkWyN

Last edited by Ste632 (2021-12-13 02:10:33)

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 02:00:28

Trilby wrote:

Please post the actual output. Most immediately relevant, are these errors coming from just a single or a few packages, or from most / all? In the latter case you have extensive db corruption. What led up to this? Was there a power outage during a pacman operation? Anything else out of the ordinary?

about the first error it was only that nothing else after i did what he said the file already exists and errors occured

jasonwryan · 2021-12-13 02:03:23

Edit your post and wrap that dump in code tags:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

Trilby · 2021-12-13 02:39:00

As all your errors are just with one package, the broader concerns aren't relevant. Something just went wrong with the gcc local db files, so follow the first troubleshooting entry in the pacman wiki page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … )%22_error

Last edited by Trilby (2021-12-13 13:48:11)

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 02:44:48

Trilby wrote:

As all your errors are just with one package, the broader concerns aren't relevant. Something just when wrong with the gcc local db files, so follow the first troubleshooting entry in the pacman wiki page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … )%22_error

should i try overwriting

seth · 2021-12-13 07:53:26

You can safely overwrite all the files in that paste, yes.

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 16:04:11

seth wrote:

You can safely overwrite all the files in that paste, yes.

overwriting does not work there is still a shorter wall of text saying that file system already exists

seth · 2021-12-13 16:14:45

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 16:21:57

seth wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

https://pastebin.com/q9p6YP1P

seth · 2021-12-13 16:23:37

How's that the result of a general overwrite-enabled update of gcc? What *exact* command did you issue to cause that output?

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 16:26:58

seth wrote:

How's that the result of a general overwrite-enabled update of gcc? What *exact* command did you issue to cause that output?

sudo pacman -S --overwrite gcc gcc

Trilby · 2021-12-13 17:19:31

That will only accept overwriting of files named 'gcc' ... so none. As there is a range of files that need to be overwritten (really all of them in the package) and given that you are specifying a single package for the command, this seems to be a case to use an actual global wildcard glob:

pacman -S --overwrite "*" gcc

Ste632 · 2021-12-13 17:32:41

Trilby wrote:

That will only accept overwriting of files named 'gcc' ... so none. As there is a range of files that need to be overwritten (really all of them in the package) and given that you are specifying a single package for the command, this seems to be a case to use an actual global wildcard glob:
pacman -S --overwrite "*" gcc

thanks it worked

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