Pacman works but pamac is giving out error

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Greetings, i’m able to use pacman to update and do general stuff but trying to use pamac & the “Add/Remove Sofware” frontend doesn’t work. Unsure on what to share as logs, i’ll share what i see fit here.

pamac update --force-refresh                                                                                                                 ✔ 
Synchronizing package databases...
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Refreshing core.db...                                                                                                                                       
Refreshing extra.db...                                                                                                                                      
Refreshing community.db...                                                                                                                                  
Refreshing multilib.db...                                                                                                                                   
Database file for core does not exist.                                                                                                                      
Database file for extra does not exist.
Database file for community does not exist.
Database file for multilib does not exist.
Refreshing core.files...                                                                                                                                    
Refreshing extra.files...                                                                                                                                   
Refreshing community.files...                                                                                                                               
Refreshing multilib.files...                                                                                                                                
Warning: multilib.files: lock file missing /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/db.lck                                                                                        
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

ls /var/lib/pacman/sync                                                                                                              20s  
community.db  core.db  extra.db  multilib.db

In the GUI frontend & the Core repository “No package found”
In other repositories in the same frontend “No package found”
In the updates page “Error - Failed to synchronise databases”

Moderator edit: Fixed formatting

2

Hello,

Please read the announcement

Also possible that you might need to refresh mirrors before updating (from terminal):
sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu

3

I… Think that fixed it? Though

Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Failed to synchronize databases
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

Third line is a bit concerning.

4

Pamac is currently broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

5

It already is.

Update once more with pacman, and then you can go back to pamac.

6

Yeah, had to select Refresh databases from the gui and then it worked again :+1: