Permission denied in pamac output

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Hello out there,
since two or three updates i am receiving this, when executing the pamac update command:

cp: cannot access '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-MTWw0d': Permission denied

The owner, rights and so on is different then for the other directories:
drwx------ 2 alpm alpm

I wonder if it is safe to delete this directory or if this is a sign that something is broke which should be fixed on my system? I didn’t find any information regarding this directory yet.

Manjaro release: 24.2.0

Best regards:)

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there was a .pacnew file, some time ago already
/etc/pacman.conf I believe
Did you merge it?
Did you tend to all .pacnew files?

Try using pacman to do the update - I’m not familiar with and no friend of pamac and avoid it.

It is - a new one will be created.
But this is not (will not be) the solution to your problem.

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This is disturbing, that sounds like a VERY long time to ignore an issue…

So I’d guess a first step might be to backup that issue:

sudo cp /var/lib/pacman/sync/download-MTWw0d /var/lib/pacman/sync/download-MTWw0d-BORKED

You might change the ownership using Chown:

sudo chown your_username:your_group /var/lib/pacman/sync/download-MTWw0d

Pacman (not pamac) full update:

sudo pacman -Syu

Remember, partial updates aren’t supported - so you can’t let these things slide.

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Maybe you did (at some time) use sudo with pamac ?

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See System Maintenance Pacnew and Pacsave files for a brief introduction to the concept.

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hey folks,
thanks for all your quick help and input. Wasn’t aware of the .pacnew concept. I updated all my config files accordingly, removed “download-MTWw0d” directory for now and executed:

sudo pacman -Syu
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You forgot to tell us the most important part…

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Regards.

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