Getting messed up…
My alias / abbr:
upgrade:
pamac upgrade --force-refresh --enable-downgrade --aur --devel
Hitting an error:
cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/core.files': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/multilib.files': Permission denied
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.
Hmmm so I removed dbs folder and ran this again. It is created by pamac with root permissions, pamac elevated it’s privileges, so why this problem?
Hi @Ben,
What are the permissions of the /var/tmp/pamac/ directory?
stat /var/tmp/pamac
File: /var/tmp/pamac/
Size: 44 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 0,27 Inode: 995520 Links: 1
Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/ ben) Gid: ( 1000/ ben)
Access: 2022-09-25 16:20:59.746720751 +0700
Modify: 2022-09-25 16:20:59.016731118 +0700
Change: 2022-09-25 16:20:59.016731118 +0700
Birth: 2022-09-06 10:21:09.837146855 +0700
Re-created by pamac after I deleted them…
Folder aur-ben owner ben, full permissions.
Folder dbs owner root, full permissions.
dbs/sync same story
cbs/sync content *.db files owner root, -rw-r–r–
File permissions match those of ancient snapshots…
You can reset these old/wrong permissions to default permissions:
$ sudo chown ben:ben /var/tmp/pamac/dbs
$ sudo chown ben:ben -R /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync
These default permissions are the same as in VM after new installation.
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Already tried - also deleted them and recreated them.
~ sudo chown ben:ben /var/tmp/pamac/dbs ✔ 17:57:12
[sudo] password for ben:
~ sudo chown ben:ben -R /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync ✔ 17:57:23
~ pamac upgrade --force-refresh --enable-downgrade --aur --devel ✔ 17:57:37
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Refreshing core.db...
Refreshing extra.db...
Refreshing community.db...
Refreshing multilib.db...
Refreshing chaotic-aur.db...
Refreshing core.files...
Refreshing extra.files...
Refreshing community.files...
Refreshing multilib.files...
Refreshing chaotic-aur.files...
Refreshing AUR...
cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/core.files': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/multilib.files': Permission denied
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.
I can not reproduce this issue.
Try to move the broken directory to backup
$ sudo mv /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync/ ~/Desktop/sync_backup
$ pamac upgrade --force-refresh --enable-downgrade --aur --devel
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Or, if that doesn’t work, how 'bout deleting the whole /var/tmp/pamac:
mv /var/tmp/pamac /var/tmp/pamac.backup
And then reinstalling pamac:
sudo pacman -Sy pamac-cli --overwrite='*'
Yes, found a few threads - no definitive reason or solution…
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