Cannot do updates with pamac / pacman (no database)

[ZimmiJ73]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem doing updates on my Manjaro system. When I try browse to the update folder of the pamac GUI only AUR packages show up. Also, when trying to update those, I get a ‘could not find database’ error message.
I already tried everything I found on the internet, so I am counting on you guys. Thanks in advance

Jakob

[anon89812132]

Hello,

sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
changes the situation?

[ZimmiJ73]

unfortunately not:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu

::INFO Downloading mirrors from Manjaro
::INFO => Mirror pool: https://repo.manjaro.org/mirrors.json
::INFO => Mirror status: https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json
::INFO Using custom mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
  ..... Germany        : ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors", line 28, in <module>
    pm.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/pacman_mirrors.py", line 120, in run
    fasttrack.build_mirror_list(self, limit=self.fasttrack)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/builder/fasttrack.py", line 57, in build_mirror_list
    work_pool = test_mirror_pool(self=self, worklist=work_pool, limit=limit)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/functions/testMirrorFn.py", line 82, in test_mirror_pool
    mirror_proto["resp_time"] = get_mirror_response(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/functions/httpFn.py", line 206, in get_mirror_response
    message = get_ftp_response(url=probe_url, maxwait=maxwait)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pacman_mirrors/functions/httpFn.py", line 167, in get_ftp_response
    shutil.copyfileobj(ftpReq, testFile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/shutil.py", line 205, in copyfileobj
    buf = fsrc_read(length)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/tempfile.py", line 478, in func_wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/tempfile.py", line 478, in func_wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py", line 704, in readinto
    return self._sock.recv_into(b)
socket.timeout: timed out

Side note: I am located in Austria and already changed to the German mirrors because I hoped that would solve my issue…

[anon89812132]

@ZimmiJ73

File "/usr/lib/python3.9/

seems the same situation as here

Pacman_mirrors --Help RP64

It is never wise to mess with the system python as every python package depends on the system python which is at 3.10.

this might help

[no bug] Pacman-mirrors throws Python error when using --geoip or --continent

urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘get.geojs.io’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/ip/country/full (Caused by NewConnectionError(‘<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f75a9c6e1c0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused’)) –continent as --goip get your country, you have an error for this test and geojs.io no want your connexion (too much connexion?)… Manual test: curl https://get.geojs.io/v1/ip/country/full You…

[limsandy]

I just used your command to update my relatively new install of Manjaro. Thanks!

[ZimmiJ73]

Looks very promising. However, I am not using a proxy and I do not know how to ‘revert an updated python’. Sorry for being a noob…

[anon89812132]

Faster fix would be to add a working mirror to your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file, on top of the others, for example:

## Country : Germany
Server = https://mirror.moson.org/manjaro/testing/$repo/$arch

Then run
sudo pacman -Syyu

And after update reboot and all should be fine after that …

[ZimmiJ73]

seems like everything is ok now. Thank you very much