Problems with updating the system

[Bastian]

There have been many updates waiting for the system, because for some time already, when I “apply” updates, there is a response:
“Failed to prepare transaction.
Invalid or corrupted database”.
I have not experienced such a problem before, and I don’t know what are causes, and what can be done about it.
There are already 877 updates waiting, and this problem continues for two months, or even longer.

[scotty65]

Try opening a terminal and running the following command:

pamac update --no-aur --force-refresh

If that does not work, then please copy the output from the terminal and paste it here.

If that does successfully update your system, then you can move on to the next step - updating any AUR packages you may have installed:

pamac update --aur --force-refresh

[Ben]

@scotty65

Try opening a terminal and running the following command:

It might be good to first check mirrors and refresh those:

sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && pacman-mirrors

[Bastian]

great, I will do it right away

[Bastian]

@Ben

sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && pacman-mirrors

there are ERRORS for mirrors in China, but the rest is fine

[Bastian]

Did not work:

Preparing...
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentication is required to install, update, or remove packages
Authenticating as: Pablo (pablo)
Password: 
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Synchronizing package databases...
Error: GPGME error: No data
Refreshing core.db...                                                                                         
Refreshing extra.db...                                                                                        
Refreshing community.db...                                                                                    
Refreshing multilib.db...                                                                                     
Error: GPGME error: No data                                                                                   
Refreshing core.files...                                                                                      
Refreshing extra.files...                                                                                     
Refreshing community.files...                                                                                 
Refreshing multilib.files...                                                                                  
Failed to synchronize databases                                                                               
cp: cannot access '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-47gLkB': Permission denied
Error: Failed to prepare transaction: invalid or corrupted database

[Pille]

You might need to rebuild the database.

This should work:

Restore pacman local database

Hello, Pacman’s database of installed software, /var/lib/pacman/local, has been deleted from my PC. So, I’m trying to restore it by following the steps prescribed here. I do have the /var/log/pacman.log and the /var/lib/pacman/local/ALPM_DB_VERSION files on my system. However, in the first step, it says to “Install the pacman-contrib package to get paclog-pkglist.” How do I do that? Since doing sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib tries to install the required dependencies too, but they are already i…

[Mirdarthos]

@Bastian

Error: GPGME error: No data

I believe you need:

[root tip] [How To] Mitigate and prevent GPGME error when syncing your system

You are getting a message when syncing your system error: GPGME error: No data error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)) Before you continue [SOLVED] Error updating system (error: GPGME error: No data) / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums Pacman troubleshooting - Manjaro Pacman looking for database signature files Also see this pacman bugreport from 2015 - which was closed as not a bug but a matter of configuration. FS#44445 : "GPGME err…

And this:

@Bastian

Refreshing community.db…

Suggests you have many .pacnew files to attend. See:

System Maintenance/en

and

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave#.pacnew

[Bastian]

I will read wiki and see what I can do about my little problem. Thanx.

[Bastian]

This one ([SOLVED] Error updating system (error: GPGME error: No data) / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums) solved my problem, and the system is updating. Thank you all who assisted me. It is good to be supported by such kind and knowledgeable people.

[Ben]

@Bastian

there are ERRORS for mirrors in China, but the rest is fine

I had only 3 mirrors, though running this just now I got a bunch more (from Bangkok here)…

❯ sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && pacman-mirrors

Pacman-mirrors version 4.28
Local mirror status for testing branch
Mirror #1   OK  02:08   Singapore   https://mirror.freedif.org/Manjaro/
Mirror #2   OK  07:16   China       https://mirrors.jlu.edu.cn/manjaro/
Mirror #3   OK  02:07   Indonesia   http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/manjaro/
Mirror #4   OK  00:29   Taiwan      https://mirror.archlinux.tw/Manjaro/
Mirror #5   OK  07:15   China       https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/manjaro/
Mirror #6   OK  02:05   Bangladesh  https://bd.mirror.vanehost.com/Manjaro/
Mirror #7   OK  00:37   Japan       http://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/manjaro/
Mirror #8   OK  00:28   Singapore   http://ossmirror.mycloud.services/os/linux/manjaro/
Mirror #9   OK  05:47   Japan       https://mirrors.xtom.jp/manjaro/
Mirror #10  OK  07:19   Turkey      https://ftp.linux.org.tr/manjaro/
Mirror #11  OK  02:35   China       https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/manjaro/
Mirror #12  OK  01:16   Georgia     http://manjaro.grena.ge/
Mirror #13  OK  04:55   Bangladesh  http://mirror.xeonbd.com/manjaro/
Mirror #14  OK  02:07   Japan       https://mirror.phoepsilonix.love/manjaro/

So it’s often worth another spin I tend to type ‘mirrors’ every update, then ‘upmirrors’ to do the continental refresh if there’s too much red in there - but it’s nice to know you’re all fixed up now.