[SOLVED] Error While Updating Packages

TiniBobini · 2026-01-25 04:26:57

After an update about a week ago I have not been able to use Pacman or Yay due to an error. I get this error with both regardless of what packages I try and install.

Pacman Version:

Pacman v7.1.0 - libalpm v16.0.1

I could not get the version of yay, I get the same error when I try use --version as when I use -Syu.

This is the output of Pacman when I try to run:

sudo pacman -Syu

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core downloading...
 extra downloading...
 multilib downloading...
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (65) {Packages hidden for privacy}

Total Installed Size:  1341.89 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        -0.22 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking keyring...
checking package integrity...
loading package files...
checking for file conflicts...
checking available disk space...
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Checking Arch News with Informant...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 407, in from_name
    return next(iter(cls.discover(name=name)))
StopIteration

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/informant", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('informant==0.6.0', 'console_scripts', 'informant')())
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/informant", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 960, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 409, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for informant
error: command failed to execute correctly
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to run transaction hooks)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded

The output of Yay when I try to run:

yay -Syu

yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried following the guide this post (and other similar post I've found) provides. But the all the guides like this that I have found require Pacman to update Yay which doesn't work due to Pacman not working. So I tried updating Pacman using the pacman-static section of the Pacman Page (3.7.1) but I got the same error that I get when I run Pacman normally.

I have tried finding others with this issue but I couldn't find anything. What can I do to get Pacman and Yay working normally again? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!

[EDIT]
After following the suggestions given by the users Lone_Wolf and killertofus (thank you both!) I have gotten everything to work correctly. I had to rebuilt yay and yay-bin but in the end everything seems to have worked!

Last edited by TiniBobini (2026-01-25 20:24:07)

killertofus · 2026-01-25 05:35:01

remove informant, update, reinstall informant

Lone_Wolf · 2026-01-25 11:52:38

Informant is an aur package that uses python. You have to rebuild it against the new python 4.14 .

Moderator Note
Not a pacman issue, moving to AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests

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#1 2026-01-25 04:26:57

[SOLVED] Error While Updating Packages

#2 2026-01-25 05:35:01

Re: [SOLVED] Error While Updating Packages

#3 2026-01-25 11:52:38

Re: [SOLVED] Error While Updating Packages

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