Dear all,
I’m having this annoying issue updating from AUR updating google-chrome.
When applying the update it exit with this error:
Preparing…
Synchronizing package databases…
Refreshing AUR…
Nothing to do.
Cloning google-chrome build files…
Generating google-chrome information…
Failed to prepare transaction:
Failed to generate google-chrome information
Can you help me?
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Not a problem here.
I just did pending updates via pacman, before that I refreshed the mirror list.
sudo pacman-mirrors -c germany
sudo pacman -Syu
then I used pamac (something I usually do not do) to install google-chrome from AUR:
LC_ALL=C pamac build google-chrome 1 ✘ 8s
Preparing...
Checking google-chrome dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
To install (1):
ttf-liberation 2.1.5-2 (Required By: google-chrome) extra 1.6 MB
To build (1):
google-chrome 142.0.7444.59-1 AUR
Total download size: 1.6 MB
Total installed size: 4.4 MB
Edit build files : [e]
Apply transaction ? [e/y/N] y
Cloning google-chrome build files...
Generating google-chrome information...
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentifizierung wird zur Installation, Aktualisierung oder Entfernung von Paketen benötigt
Authenticating as: JE (jo)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Herunterladen von ttf-liberation (2.1.5-2) gestartet
Herunterladen von ttf-liberation (2.1.5-2) beendet
Überprüfe Schlüsselring... [1/1]
Integrität wird überprüft... [1/1]
Paketdateien werden geladen... [1/1]
Dateikonflikte werden überprüft... [1/1]
Überprüfe verfügbaren Speicherplatz... [1/1]
Installiere ttf-liberation (2.1.5-2)... [1/1]
Starte Post-Transaction-Hooks...
Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... [1/3]
Updating fontconfig cache... [2/3]
Updating X fontdir indices... [3/3]
Building google-chrome...
==> Making package: google-chrome 142.0.7444.59-1 (Fri Oct 31 09:01:32 2025)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Downloading google-chrome-stable_142.0.7444.59-1_amd64.deb...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 112M 100 112M 0 0 3805k 0 0:00:30 0:00:30 --:--:-- 3896k
-> Found eula_text.html
-> Found google-chrome-stable.sh
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
google-chrome-stable_142.0.7444.59-1_amd64.deb ... Passed
eula_text.html ... Passed
google-chrome-stable.sh ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
-> Extracting google-chrome-stable_142.0.7444.59-1_amd64.deb with bsdtar
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
-> Removing empty directories...
-> Removing libtool files...
-> Purging unwanted files...
-> Removing static library files...
-> Compressing man and info pages...
==> Checking for packaging issues...
==> Creating package "google-chrome"...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Generating .BUILDINFO file...
-> Adding install file...
-> Generating .MTREE file...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: google-chrome 142.0.7444.59-1 (Fri Oct 31 09:02:22 2025)
==> Cleaning up...
Überprüfe Schlüsselring... [1/1]
Integrität wird überprüft... [1/1]
Paketdateien werden geladen... [1/1]
Dateikonflikte werden überprüft... [1/1]
Überprüfe verfügbaren Speicherplatz... [1/1]
Installiere google-chrome (142.0.7444.59-1)... [1/1]
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
==> NOTE: Custom flags should be put directly in: ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf
==> NOTE: The launcher is called: 'google-chrome-stable'
Starte Post-Transaction-Hooks...
Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... [1/3]
Updating icon theme caches... [2/3]
Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... [3/3]
Transaction successfully finished.
Usually I would have used yay to build anything from AUR.
(I did specifically use LC_ALL=C but still half the messages are not in englisch … - I did try @Aragorn 
)
AUR is unsupported - but you should already know that.
Unless you rely on various Google built-in services in Chrome - Chromium may be useful as it is in the repos.
It is quite possible you hit AUR in a bad moment - after all it is frequently going off-line or restarting the service due to the ongoing infrastructure attack on Arch Linux.
Pamac is less likely to be affected if AUR is not available since Manjaro team created AUR mirror server
While that is true for the stage in which pamac retrieves information about an AUR package, the actual build process still requires pamac to access the AUR server itself, and thus it’ll still be a hit-and-miss while this DDoS attack continues.
As an aside, how long has this been going on now? And who’s behind it, and what the blazes do they hope to achieve with it? 
No problem updating chrome on partner’s system
$ pamac info google-chrome
Name : google-chrome
Version : 142.0.7444.59-1
Description : The popular web browser by Google (Stable Channel)
URL : https://www.google.com/chrome
Licences : custom:chrome
Repository : AUR
Installed Size : 390.1 MB
Build Date : Fri 31 Oct 2025 11:01:40 GMT
Install Date : Fri 31 Oct 2025 11:01:56 GMT
Arch also has a mirror of AUR packages:
Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
Workarounds during service disruption
- In the case of downtime for aur.archlinux.org:
Packages: We maintain a mirror of AUR packages on GitHub. You can retrieve a package using:
git clone --branch <package_name> --single-branch https://github.com/archlinux/aur.git package_name>
Around three months, and counting.
As to the other two questions, I wouldn’t like to hazard at a guess.
This absolutely - I had some headaches this afternoon, came back 2 hours later and it was plain sailing.
Many people have too much time on their hands and need something to keep themselves occupied.
As we’ve seen from history, when some people move on from a distribution - or generally have some kind of complaint about it - they can develop a strong urge to go to war.
Arch is also revered - a shining star in the firmament - so what better target?
It also depends on how many AUR packages need upgrading. The smaller the number, the better your chances.
some AUR packages are directly available (as built pacman packages) from chaotic AUR (https://aur.chaotic.cx/) packages ;
direct link to google-chrome; https://builds.garudalinux.org/repos/chaotic-aur/x86_64/google-chrome-142.0.7444.59-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Just mentioning that google-chrome from AUR is not really being built from source - it uses the Debian package and simply converts it into the Arch package format.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=google-chrome