First update not working after installing fresh from the live environment

    ~  sudo pacman-mirrors -aU https://manjaro.lucassymons.net                                        ✔ 
[sudo] password for inevitable: 
::INFO Writing mirror list
::BUILDMIRROR     : https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/stable
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    ~  sudo pacman -Syy                                                                               ✔ 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from manjaro.lucassymons.net : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed to synchronize all databases (download library error)

Looks like we got a bit more to go on this time

This is very strange - can you open this link? https://manjaro.lucassymons.net

It loads, but only the html. No javascript. It certainly doesn’t look like much. Does it use javascript or is it meant to look like that?

Yes - It isn’t much - just a folder listing - but it is proving you have no network issues

Ah ok yes it loads fine then in that case.

Leaving this here as it seems the db.lck is created in two places now …

what is the result of

 curl -O https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/stable/core/x86_64/core.db

Something like this is expected

 $ curl -O https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/stable/core/x86_64/core.db
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  162k  100  162k    0     0  1806k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1830k

it will download the core.db to the folder - you can remove it

rm core.db

This is just a fresh install from the latest ISO of plasma. Downloaded it earlier this afternoon.

    ~  curl -O https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/stable/core/x86_64/core.db                   1 ✘  15s  
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  162k  100  162k    0     0  11033      0  0:00:15  0:00:15 --:--:-- 36804

I also ran rm core.db after this as suggested. Should I try sudo pacman -Syyu again?

There is something completely off on your system.

I just tested the same mirror - no issues

11:18:36 ○ [fh@tiger] ~
 $ sudo pacman-mirrors -aU https://manjaro.lucassymons.net
::INFO Writing mirror list
::BUILDMIRROR     : https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/unstable
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

11:18:44 ○ [fh@tiger] ~
 $ sudo pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                  165,6 KiB  88,9 KiB/s 00:02 [------------------------------------] 100%
 extra                                1845,6 KiB   347 KiB/s 00:05 [------------------------------------] 100%
 community                               7,4 MiB  2020 KiB/s 00:04 [------------------------------------] 100%

Did you validate the file after download?

From the official manjaro.org or daily builds?

I didn’t know I was supposed to validate it. What does this even mean xD

It flashed onto my usb well enough. I plugged it in and it does what it normally does in any fresh installation.

    ~  sudo pacman -Syyu                                                                              ✔ 
[sudo] password for inevitable: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core
    ~  curl -O https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/stable/core/x86_64/core.db                   1 ✘  15s  
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 core.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from manjaro.lucassymons.net : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds
error: failed to synchronize all databases (download library error)

From the official manjaro.org.

It refers to a procedure where you validate if the ISO is complete and identicatal to the original.

For the full plasma

For the minimal plasma

To validate put the iso and the sig file in the same folder then run

For the minimal plasma

gpg --verify manjaro-kde-21.3.7-minimal-220816-linux515.iso.sig manjaro-kde-21.3.7-minimal-220816-linux515.iso

For the full plasma

gpg --verify manjaro-kde-21.3.7-220816-linux515.iso.sig manjaro-kde-21.3.7-220816-linux515.iso

Could you teach me how to do it? That sounds like a useful skill.

Do you think I should just redownload the ISO and try again?

I downloaded it on a windows 11 machine, then I flashed it onto the USB from there. Can I run these commands on windows?

Maybe I should just redownload the ISO and reflash the drive.

please go to the graphical package manager, at the top right are the options, open them and do a database-update from there. after this your update should run (had the same issues some time ago and it was necessary to update the database of the gui-package-manager)

I’ll give this a try thanks!

You can - but you need to install gpg4win

Yeah nah just gonna go fresh. See if that solves it.

Manjaro’s own package manager Pamac is great and built on top of Arch library - the Archlinux native pacman is better.

I am highly opionated on that matter :slight_smile:

I use pamac for quick searches I cannot remember the pacman command for :slight_smile: