Aur packages unable to update

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Dear folks,

I’m experiencing some troubles when updating the AUR packages via the pacman graphical interface. I can do a normal update of the packages via the terminal, but those of AUR I always have used the graphical interface without trouble until now.

The problem: I press “update”, and then I got the messages “Failed to prepare transaction” with “Edit build files”, as well as “Error” with “Failed to prepare transaction” w “Invalid or corrupted database”.

In the terminal I execute “pamac upgrade -a” and get again the same kind of messages. Is this some internal error in AUR that will be fixed lately, or is something I have to fix locally? The last output is

Running as unit: run-u347.service
fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /var/cache/private)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
Finished with result: exit-code
Main processes terminated with: code=exited/status=128
Service runtime: 17ms
CPU time consumed: 17ms
Running as unit: run-u348.service
Finished with result: success
Main processes terminated with: code=exited/status=0
Service runtime: 20ms
CPU time consumed: 18ms
Running as unit: run-u349.service
Finished with result: success
Main processes terminated with: code=exited/status=0
Service runtime: 1.340s
CPU time consumed: 87ms
Generating google-chrome information...
Running as unit: run-u351.service
Finished with result: success
Main processes terminated with: code=exited/status=0
Service runtime: 1.644s
CPU time consumed: 1.826s
Checking google-chrome dependencies...
Error: Failed to prepare transaction: invalid or corrupted database



Edit build files : [e] 
Apply transaction ? [e/y/N] N

Transaction cancelled.```
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Hullo there,

To go over some things …

No such thing exists. Maybe you mean pamac ?

Ah so you do.

Seems an error local to you. The AUR is not down.

To start;

Please make sure to have any package managers closed.

Then I suggest a handful of things;

  • Sort Mirrors
sudo pacman-mirrors -f
  • Remove the (probably problematic) pamac database
rm -rf /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/*
  • Run upgrade, forcing database refresh
pamac update --force-refresh
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Sometimes AUR fails with Manjaro - specifically when KDE Plasma was held back from Stable some time ago, I found a lot of KDE related items/scripts were updated in AUR before Manjaro had caught up with Arch.

These issues - usually not serious - will go away within a week or two (so the solution is to stick with what you have until it works).

However, Chrome updated without issues - so CSCS’s cleanout should do the trick.

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Many thanks for the suggestion. I still get errors, any idea or suggestion you may still have in your sleeve? I may add that many packages that were pending are already updated, and they only remain things like zoom, skype, google.chrome, or yay-git.

Usage:
  List:    bsdtar -tf <archive-filename>
  Extract: bsdtar -xf <archive-filename>
  Create:  bsdtar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
  Help:    bsdtar --help
==> ERROR: Failed to create package file.
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Ah ok, good to know.

When you say to clean cscs’s, what do you mean exactly?

Many thanks for this help.

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That error is entirely different and looks like either there is a problem with the PKGBUILD … or pamac is just fumbling the build, whcich wouldnt surprise me either.

Lets use something reliable for the repos;

sudo pacman -Syu

If that works then all thats left is AUR packages.

You might also clean out its build files

pamac clean -b

If you continue to hit errors please share them (and a bit more than just the bsdtar failing), including what package(s) are producing the error(s).

Also … do you have any other AUR helper besides pamac ?