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saleem

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[SOLVED] pacman gives desc error

Was doing routine update, power went off and later on when I tried updating , I am getting this error. I coul not find any fix for it on online search . Would appreciate how to fix it . Thanks

error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg-6.7.3-1/desc: No such file or directory

Last edited by saleem (2024-10-06 10:12:40)

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman gives desc error

touch that file, then reinstall qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg.

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman gives desc error

Check the health of your filesystem and underlying hardware first, but if you're content that this is a one-off and not an indicator of more serious filesystem corruption, you can simply re-install the database entry for that exact package + version using, e.g.

pacman -U --dbonly /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg-6.7.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

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saleem

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman gives desc error

Check the health of your filesystem and underlying hardware first, but if you're content that this is a one-off and not an indicator of more serious filesystem corruption, you can simply re-install the database entry for that exact package + version using, e.g.

pacman -U --dbonly /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg-6.7.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Thanks , fixed this error by chrooting into my system but upgrade comes up with many other issues , guess many files got corrupted

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saleem

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Posts: 159

Re: [SOLVED] pacman gives desc error

Got the above warning/error fixed by overwriting piperwire

# pacman -S --overwrite \* pipewire