Invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature) - 2025-03-05 Stable Update

[fhins]

I’m getting an invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)
Failed to synchronize database.
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)

System:
Kernel: 6.12.12-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5

[longusnickus]

isnt that the problem already has a solution here? delete COMMUNITY from /etc/pacman.conf
or replace it with /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew

[Phemisters]

If you have not already done so, you could try the approach detailed here:

[HowTo] Work around gpg verification issue on left behind systems

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ This script is the result of people here in the forum having problems with Manjaro installations that haven’t been updated for more than 2 months or booting an old ISO plus installing it which is older than 2 months. I was a bit tired of explaining how to solve that issue and created a script, which does the job. Methods Method 1 - Basic Remove lock files of pamac and pacman Refresh Package Database Populate local keyrings to the GnuPG Database of pacman Refresh GnuPG Data…

[fhins]

How do you remove lock files of pamac and pacman?
I tried “sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck” but it didn’t work.

[Phemisters]

It will help if you post the exact command and the output you are seeing.

Perhaps the lock file does not exist.

What do you see which says there is a lock file (and again, posting the command and the output makes it a lot easier to help you)?

[fhins]

I get this:
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/lib/pacman/db.lck’: No such file or directory

[TheRooJZ]

It’s a common mistake, you probably haven’t updated the databases much in a while until the most recent update came out.

My recommendation before deleting those sync packages would be:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f

And then a

sudo pacman -Syyu

[Phemisters]

So if the lock file does not exist I would suggest you skip that step and try doing the steps which follow on from that.

You can see that the script on that page does a find to see if the lock file exists before trying to remove it, so it should be safe to skip that step.

[BG405]

Moved to a dedicated topic. Please feel free to change the title if desired.

Cheers!

[fhins]

I get “invalid or corrupted database” when I tried to install electron34-bin.
Perhaps it’s going to get resolved in the next update!

[br_shadow]

I have same issue too, with the same output from that command

[anon33601770]

@fhins

get this:
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/lib/pacman/db.lck’: No such file or directory

there is no such file (anymore)

It does not exist in the first place - therefore it can’t be removed.

[fhins]

I just did, but still getting an error message.
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

[BG405]

Hi @fhins I moved the previous posts on this to a dedicated thread.

[fhins]

This resolved the issue:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1983577
sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync
sudo -E pacman -Syu

Thanks for your help!

[br_shadow]

This does not solve it for me.

I tried the following commands

sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync
sudo -E pacman -Syu
sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
sudo -E pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring
sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync
sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync

I’m still getting the below and failing to update. Via terminal

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                                                                                                                                     139.9 KiB  48.9 KiB/s 00:03 [##################################################################################################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                                                                                                                                      8.3 MiB  1605 KiB/s 00:05 [##################################################################################################################################################] 100%
 community.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from fosszone.csd.auth.gr : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from ftp.cc.uoc.gr : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)

and via pamac GUI

[anon33601770]

@br_shadow

community.db failed to download

Manjaro Linux Forum

see the pinned post at the top of the “latest” page - the link takes you there

[br_shadow]

This worked, thank you!

[fhins]

I’m having the same problem with my laptop. I did the following which worked on my desktop but not this laptop.
sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync
sudo -E pacman -Syu
Here’s the error message I get:
Checking inter-conflicts…
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:

• removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency ‘lib32-libffi’ required by lib32-glib2
• removing lib32-pcre2 breaks dependency ‘lib32-pcre2’ required by lib32-glib2
• removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency ‘libffi.so=8-32’ required by lib32-glib2

I’m in the nano /etc/pacman.conf file and I have the exact same command listed in the suggestion, so I don’t know what else to do or try!
#[community]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist