Out of memory during pamac update

[Aragorn]

It’s a known problem, possibly linked to the way pamac accesses the AUR.

Bizarre Pamac & Pacman behavior: used 62GiB memory, took 10min to refresh DBs

Earlier this afternoon (Fri Jan 5, 2024), my Pamac and Pacman were broken in a really bizarre way. When I attempted to check for updates via Pamac, Pamac filled my RAM (62GiB) with garbage then started using M2 storage as virtual RAM, and took about 10 minutes to update databases. Then on attempting to actually update 4 AUR packages, Pamac crashed. So I tried the same thing with Pacman, but it also failed, in an interesting way: %sudo pacman -S -yy -u --needed Job start time: 01:26:34 PM [s…

The general (and best) advice is to use the command line for updating, and to update your system packages before your AUR packages…

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Syu