Sudo issues and invalid or corrupt package

[Jkharris]

Edit: As I needed a quick “solution” to get work done, I took the L and just started fresh on a new Manjaro installation. This time making backups and trying to do everything right.

Hi guys, I had issues with my kernel update and once I figured out a fix for that I now have this issue shown below:

sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin "sudoers_policy"
sudo: unable to load /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so: libldap-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins

Anytime I try to use sudo to install anything I get this error. I tried the following which I saw on another post:
su
and enter the root password you set at install, then run:
pacman -Syyu sudo libsasl
then reboot the system
systemctl reboot

However when I run the below command, I get an error regarding an invalid or corrupted package.

pacman -Syyu sudo libsasl
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                                             168.9 KiB   207 KiB/s 00:01 [#######################################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                                           1901.2 KiB  1621 KiB/s 00:01 [#######################################################################################] 100%
 community                                                                                                          7.0 MiB  1914 KiB/s 00:04 [#######################################################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                                                                         174.0 KiB   352 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################################################################] 100%
warning: libsasl-2.1.27-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/lib32-mesa-21.3.5-1/desc: No such file or directory
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: could not fully load metadata for package lib32-mesa-21.3.5-1
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

Edit: I now also tried to fix this by using su and then running the following commands but still no luck.

pacman-mirrors -f && pacman -Syyu
::INFO Downloading mirrors from Manjaro
::INFO => Mirror pool: https://repo.manjaro.org/mirrors.json
::INFO => Mirror status: https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json
::INFO Using custom mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
  0.592 United_States  : https://mirrors.gigenet.com/manjaro/
  1.533 United_States  : https://mirror.arvancloud.com/manjaro/
  0.410 Canada         : https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/manjaro/
  0.658 Canada         : https://muug.ca/mirror/manjaro/
  0.934 Costa_Rica     : https://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/manjaro/
  0.489 United_States  : https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/manjaro/
  1.714 United_States  : https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/manjaro/
  0.467 Canada         : https://mirror.0xem.ma/manjaro/
  0.554 United_States  : https://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/manjaro/
  0.407 Canada         : https://osmirror.org/manjaro/
  0.899 United_States  : https://mirrors.sonic.net/manjaro/
::INFO Writing mirror list
::Canada          : https://osmirror.org/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::Canada          : https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::Canada          : https://mirror.0xem.ma/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States   : https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States   : https://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States   : https://mirrors.gigenet.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::Canada          : https://muug.ca/mirror/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States   : https://mirrors.sonic.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::Costa_Rica      : https://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States   : https://mirror.arvancloud.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_States   : https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                     168.9 KiB   406 KiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
 extra                                   1901.2 KiB  5.58 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
 community                                  7.0 MiB  10.6 MiB/s 00:01 [#######################################] 100%
 multilib                                 174.0 KiB  2.98 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/lib32-mesa-21.3.5-1/desc: No such file or directory
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: could not fully load metadata for package lib32-mesa-21.3.5-1
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

I’m relatively new to manjaro and linux as a whole, any help would be greatly appreciated, if you need any further information please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

[Yochanan]

See:

Update or package installation returns “error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)”

I can’t install or update a package because I get (something like) this: error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Why is this happening? The package manager, pacman , has detected a malformed or incomplete package. By design it will not install the broken package. This is a design feature, not a flaw - you dont want to install corrupted files. This issue normally happens because the process was interrupted (for example …

As well as:

[HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ Formatting differences Discourse – this forum’s engine – uses Markdown to format its posts, and removes “unnecessary” whitespace. Terminal commands often produce output formatted so that they are better readable by the user, taking advantage of the monospaced font used. Programming code often rely on indentation to make it more readable. Using preformatting in Markdown Markdown includes a pattern to provide preformatting when necessary. You only need to put the part to f…

Please edit your post accordingly.

[Jkharris]

Hi, thanks for the advice with formatting, however the solution to my actual problem doesn’t seem to work for me as I am having issues with sudo so I can’t use the commands recommended to fix the second issue. I guess these are 2 issues in one and maybe I should have made 2 separate posts.

I need to get sudo working again before I can fix/do anything else.

[Olli]

may you explain what’s the problem ?

[Jkharris]

Whenever I try to use sudo to install anything I get:

sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin "sudoers_policy"
sudo: unable to load /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so: libldap-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins

I know I can use “su” to get into root and run commands but I’d rather not have to do that every time I wish to install something.

And when i try to run

pacman -Syyu

I also get errors.
Like I said, I am new to Linux and I am just stuck right now as I can’t seem to get anything to work.

[Olli]

please post the output of `groups’

[Camonophy]

@Jkharris

I had issues with my kernel update and once I figured out a fix for that

Can you explain the issue and how you fixed it in more detail?

[ishaan2479]

@Jkharris

I am having issues with sudo so I can’t use the commands recommended to fix the second issue.

@Jkharris

error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

You can switch to root to fix this issue first. Then just update your mirrors and do a full system upgrade.

Links

Update or package installation returns “error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)”

Error when I try installing things via pacman - #13 by linux-aarhus

[omano]

Also for the sudo issue, maybe try reinstalling sudo (as root, with su command.

[Jkharris]

when I run ‘groups’ as my user it outputs:

sys network power lp wheel autologin jkharris

and when I run it under ‘su’:

root

[Jkharris]

So when I updated my kernel I used this interface to update to a newer version:
Edit: The image doesnt seem to upload, I simply used the “Kernel - System Settings Module” to update to a new kernel. I currently have 5.10.98-1 installed but also have 5.9.16-1 installed, this is the one that is running and it also shows that it is unsupported. Should I try using a different kernel again or should I try to solve this issue first?

![kernel|593x500](upload://bPpG4SCB5YLwtAZEMiq8VizCY7P.png)

and I didn’t delete or remove my old kernel version. So to get it to work again I simply removed the new version I installed and now I am here.

[Jkharris]

I tried to fix that issue first, the only thing I didn’t try was to clear my entire cache as they mentioned that is undesirable but if I need to do that then that is fine.