Hello I need some help with Manjaro mirrors please. Running pacman -Syu or pacman -Syyu often gives this error about a missing community.db file: $ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core 142.4 KiB 220 KiB/s 00:01 [#############…

The community repo was removed quite some time ago. You need to remove it from the config file. sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf This is the bit you need to remove: [community] SigLevel = PackageRequired Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Thank you so much, @dmt and @megavolt . I searched the forum for “mirror” and “404” but didn’t think of searching for “community.db”. I have now removed the lines from /etc/pacman.conf.

You should have removed the community database 2 years ago when it was originally announced.

[image] haha: Thank you so much, @dmt and @megavolt . I searched the forum for “mirror” and “404” but didn’t think of searching for “community.db”. I have now removed the lines from /etc/pacman.conf. This highlights the importance of reading the Update Announcements; particularly the Known Iss…

I’ve readded community repo as a blank repo. So people not cleaning up their pacman.conf can still use the system and update.

At least it’s a :adhesive_bandage: for the time being. Encouraging people to familiarise themselves with .pacnew/.pacsave continues to be an issue. :man_shrugging:

[image] soundofthunder: At least it’s a :adhesive_bandage: for the time being. Not a fan of this. It has been known for about two years. And it is not at all difficult to take care of. The people that did properly take care of it must feel quite stupid now … They could all have spared the…

It will take a while till most mirrors sync that new/old repo once again: sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core 143,9 KiB 569 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% extra 8,4 MiB 4,83 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100% …

[image] anon33601770: [image] soundofthunder: At least it’s a :adhesive_bandage: for the time being. Not a fan of this. It has been known for about two years. Maybe so, but it does solve the immediate issue. I suppose a one-of-a-kind script could be devised to search for the respect…

[image] soundofthunder: Maybe so, but it does solve the immediate issue. … as a bandaid does … I would have thought that the majority of the issue (users encountering the issue) would have been dealt with by now. Apparently not. … this one is rather easy to deal with - but only by possibly…

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Update error: 404 for "community.db"

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megavolt 2 May 2025 16:39 3

Update - error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' Notices

Long time ago the community packages was moved to the extra repo and the community was informed. → forum announcements for “The community repository has been merged into extra” 2023-05-21T15:55:00Z (UTC) → gitlab - pacman.conf - generating pacman.conf.pacnew The community repo was kept but with an empty database - thus you may have forgotten all about it. But now the community repo has been removed from the mirror pool. → Arch Linux - News: Cleaning up old repositories If you did not up…

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