Hello I have this message each time i use: pamac upgrade -a pamac upgrade -a  :check_mark:  6s  Vorbereitung… Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken… Aktualisierung von AUR… cp: Zugriff auf ‘/var/lib/pacman/sync/down…

These are probably old and not needed anymore. They may be remnants from you using pamac with sudo in the past. ls -hl /var/lib/pacman/sync/ There likely are no files there. Check: ls -hl /var/lib/pacman/sync/download* I don’t have such directories present here - but I don’t have anything from…

[image] anon33601770: They may be remnants from you using pamac with sudo in the past. That’s what it looks like to me as well. :wink:

Those are temporary download folders, usually empty. The problem is those are created from the new download user “alpm” after one of the last update. Which confuses other tools like yay or pamac, because those start to run with your user and only ask for root if needed… obviously they do not detect …

It’s a known issue: [image] makepkg --install leaves stray download-XXXXXX dir behind (#297) · Issues ·... This appears to be a new regression in pacman-7.1. I noticed it while building pkgs with devtools (the default Arch build tools enable namcap which...

[image] Yochanan: makepkg --install leaves stray download-XXXXXX dir behind (#297) · Issues · Pacman / Pacman · GitLab But… But… But… :backhand_index_pointing_down: BUGS Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. :stuck_out_tongue:

Pacman 7.1 has less BUGS. :bug:

my temporary solution sudo rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download*/* && sudo rmdir /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download* before or after yay -Scc

[image] chicho1704: cp: Zugriff auf ‘/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-ASOzbC’ nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung This works for me: sudo rm -rv /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-* followed by: sudo pacman -Scc

I am on Manjaro stable with XFCE and i get issues with pacman that “forgets” to remove empty folders in folder pkg with names like downloads-* KI told me it is a known problem of pacman 7 I didn’t experience this issue in the year 2025 ( i think ) and my pacman --version tells me [john1@manjaro…

[image] Pacman produces empty folders in /var/cache/pacman/pkg I am on Manjaro stable with XFCE and i get issues with pacman that “forgets” to remove empty folders in folder pkg with names like downloads-* KI told me it is a known problem of pacman 7 It is, indeed. The problem is known about…

Access denied to '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-ASOzbC' permission denied

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Yochanan 7 February 2026 20:39 5

It’s a known issue:

Pacman -Scc command not working, unable to manually delete

[Unstable Update] February 2026

What is going on here every hour?