pacman has been failing to sync databases for a few month now which means ive not been able to install updates or new packages. I finally got some time last night to take a look. The error message I am getting is a 404 when trying to sync the eschwartz.db. This only occurs/tries to check when I h…

yes what Strit is saying… however, as you said you didnt update for several months, so be ready for possible issues with your system…

Thanks - I’m not sure how that got into the conf in the first place or which package its there to support. Ive commented it out and now get the following Synchronizing package databases... no servers configured for repository Is there a way I can identify which package uses it so I can remove it? …

try these commands: sudo pacman-mirrors -c all sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu

[image] brahma: sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu ... ::Singapore : https://download.nus.edu.sg/mirror/manjaro/stable ::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist error: GPGME error: No data error: GPGME error: No data error: GPGME error: No data error: …

so try this: sudo rm -f /var/lib/pacman/sync/* sudo pacman-mirrors --continent sudo pacman -Syyu

[image] brahma: sudo pacman -Syyu Thanks for persevering… same error sudo pacman -Syyu :: Synchronising package databases... error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for repository)

try this: sudo sed -i 's/SigLevel.*/SigLevel = Never/' /etc/pacman.conf sudo pacman -Syy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring --ignore manjaro-system sudo pacman -Syyu

[image] brahma: sudo pacman -Syy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring --ignore manjaro-system sudo pacman -Syy gnupg archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring --ignore manjaro-system :: Synchronising package databases... error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for reposit…

so navigate to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and open the mirrorlist file and is it empty? try put in there this: ## ## Manjaro Linux custom mirrorlist ## Generated on 2022-05-13 19:23 ## ## Please use 'pacman-mirrors -id' To reset custom mirrorlist ## Please use 'pacman-mirrors -c all' To reset custom…

File seems to be populated correctly already… ## ## Manjaro Linux default mirrorlist ## Generated on 2022-05-16 09:19 ## ## Please use 'pacman-mirrors -f [NUMBER] [NUMBER]' to modify mirrorlist ## (Use 0 for all mirrors) ## ## Country : United_Kingdom Server = https://mirror.cyberhost.uk/sites/man…

Eschwartz.db 404ing on package sync

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maycne.sonahoz 16 May 2022 08:56 23