Octopi Notifier issue

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Since the 2026-05-02 update my Octopi notifier has been consistenly showing yellow to indicate that there are aur updates to install when there are not. (side note: I dont’ have many aur applications, they’re mostly things like vst plugins, google chrome, musescore, and nordvpn that I rely on. I am aware that many people think that aur is a bad idea. I don’t run anything that should affect my system stability and have never had an issue from this)

I know that there are no actuat updates pending becuase in both the octopi and pamac applications there are no pending aur updates. I am running an up to date KDE system and installed yesterday’s update as well which did not fix the issue. I am aware that the 2026-05-02 update had a change to this application. I selected the octopi-notifier-kstatus option at the time as I’m using a KDE system. To attempt to remedy this I’ve tried reinstalling octopi, octopi-notifier-status, and alpm-octopi-utils as well as cleaning the package cache which didn’t help. When I click on the octopi notifier task bar icon to install the applications it opens the system upgrade window which outputs this.

/usr/bin/bash -c "trizen --noconfirm  --noedit  -Sa :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ;echo 'PAKtC'"
❯ /usr/bin/bash -c "trizen --noconfirm  --noedit  -Sa :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ;echo 'PAKtC'"
:: :: not found.
:: :: not found.
:: :: not found.
:: :: not found.
:: :: not found.
:: :: not found.
:: :: not found.
PAKtC

When an actual update, either from the repositories or aur, comes along the icon will work to install them and will change to red when an update from the repositories is available. After these are installed though it will revert to yellow incorrectly.

Has anybody else experienced this or have any advice on how to fix the issue?

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I’ve been looking at it, but no advice. The icon disappeared after I opened Octopi to check the actual status.

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Thanks! Hope something comes up to fix it.

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I have no idea, but a shot in the dark: i bet on something with trizen cache. What will happen if you install yay and change to it as a helper in octopi settings?

Another idea will be to rebuild trizen itself, because the problem (if using yay solves it, the problem is trizen).

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AUR (en) - trizen

Last Updated: 2022-12-02 10:54 (UTC)

chowbok commented on 2025-09-06 19:18 (UTC)

I don’t know if it’s just me, but lately trizen hasn’t been seeing package updates.

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You’re on the right track here for sure.

As you guessed switching to yay does indeed make the problem go away. I switched the aur helper to yay, ran trizen -Scc to clear the trizen cache, removed trizen, installed trizen again, switched the aur tool back to trizen, and manually checked for updates. The problem went away when I switched to yay and returned when I switched back to trizen.

Perhaps yay is the way to go for the time being and I’ll just have to get used to it’s quirks.

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Aside:-

topgrade might be of interest – it uses yay (if installed) and executes it’s commands properly without one needing to be aware of it’s quirks.

sudo pacman -S topgrade
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