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PranshuTG

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Registered: 2022-04-01

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[SOLVED] pacman failed to initialize alpm library

error: failed to initialize alpm library:
(root: /, dbpath: /var/lib/pacman/)
could not open database

ive tried pacman-db-upgrade and it wont work.

Last edited by PranshuTG (2022-08-12 04:51:34)

PranshuTG

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Registered: 2022-04-01

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman failed to initialize alpm library

/var/lib/pacman had incorrect permissions. it needs 755 through chmod

although its still broken

Last edited by PranshuTG (2022-08-11 15:41:30)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman failed to initialize alpm library

What is the contents of /var/lib/pacman

ls -l /var/lib/pacman

PranshuTG

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Registered: 2022-04-01

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman failed to initialize alpm library

I found my solutution:

mv /var/lib/pacman /var/lib/pacman.backup
pacman -Syy pacman
mv /var/lib/pacman.backup/local /var/lib/pacman/
pacman-db-upgrade