"Failed to commit transaction" error during routine update

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I’m new to Manjaro (Gnome Ed.). After a notice that there was an update, I opened the Pamac Gui and ran update. The update failed with message “Failed to commit transaction”. No other info was provided. I did a search on the Manjaro Forums for the error and followed a suggestion in one of the posts I read.

This resulted in:
gort-prime% sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu
[sudo] password for louis:

APP_DIR /usr/share
LOCALE_DIR /usr/share/locale
LOCALE en_US

::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
0.528 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.288 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.253 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.189 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.308 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.526 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.566 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.169 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.155 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.613 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.534 United_States : Index of /manjaro/
0.517 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.286 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.548 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.146 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
0.360 United_States : FCIX Micro Mirror
::INFO Writing mirror list
::United_States : https://coresite.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://forksystems.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://uvermont.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://nnenix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://ohioix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://nocix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://mnvoip.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://volico.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://southfront.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://opencolo.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://codingflyboy.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://ridgewireless.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : http://mirror.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://irltoolkit.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://ask4.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States : https://ziply.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core 145.2 KiB 995 KiB/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100%
extra 8.6 MiB 20.9 MiB/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100%
community 29.0 B 1450 B/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100%
multilib 145.3 KiB 5.25 MiB/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade…
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…

Packages (2) gnome-shell-extension-gtk4-desktop-icons-ng-1:68-1 pacman-mirrors-4.24.1-1

Total Installed Size: 1.60 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [#########################################] 100%
downloading required keys…
:: Import PGP key 150C200743ED46D8, “Mark Wagie mark@manjaro.org”? [Y/n]
error: key “150C200743ED46D8” could not be imported
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
gort-prime%

I also looked at the “Preferences” section of the Updater’s GUI and the mirror was changed from “United States” to “Worldwide”. Every time I change it to “United States” it reverts to “Worldwide”. I also tried clearing the cache with no success, as well as a restart to see if the update would succeed on a system restart, but that didn’t work either.

This is beyond by knowledge to resolve. Assistance is greatly appreciated.

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Theres more info.

PS.

Doesnt exist anymore.
(this is also indicative of not handling pacnews in general)

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Not really :wink:

downloading required keys…
:: Import PGP key 150C200743ED46D8, “Mark Wagie [mark@manjaro.org](mailto:mark@manjaro.org)”? [Y/n]
error: key “150C200743ED46D8” could not be imported
error: required key missing from keyring
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)

failed for missing/outdated key -
update … something
I’m not on Arch/Manjaro and have not been for a while.

search for how to resolve key / kerying issues

ps:
@cscs is likely much closer with his advice than I was - we posted at almost the same time

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Additionally, you could tidy your post for better readability; by placing the output in an appropriate preformatted text container; simply add three backticks ( ``` ) as indicated here:

This resulted in:
```
gort-prime% sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu
…
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
gort-prime%
```
I also looked at the …

This formatting results in:

gort-prime% sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu
...
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
gort-prime%

I also looked at the …

See also How to post command output and file content as Formatted Text.

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Thanks to all who responded. :smiley:
I believe my problem occurred when I performed the most recent upgrade to Gnome 45.1. When I performed that update, I hadn’t disabled all of the pre 45 gnome extensions. This was mandatory before performing the update. When I rebooted this caused a problem which I previously posted about in another section of this forum and which I thought I had resolved. Apparently I was wrong and I believe that’s why I experienced this key ring problem when I tried to perform the next update which included a gnome extension update.

Anyway, I think I have solved the problem by following ALL of the steps outlined in this well written HOWTO: [HowTo] Solve Keyring Related Issues in Manjaro.

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Perhaps next time you post, you could follow the steps outlined in the equally well written “How to post command output and file content as Formatted Text”. :slight_smile:

In any case, it’s good to know your issue is resolved. Cheers.

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