Update issues, and trouble with lib32-glib2

Reid · 6 March 2025 16:06

Hi team -
Usually my updates go without issue but not today.
I’m running kernel 6.12.12-2-MANJARO with plasma 6.2.5

Earlier I saw the posting re: community.db and took care of that, but I wonder if I went too far, since I see (below) there are “no servers configured for repository”. does that look right?
Also, of course, there’s the lib32.glib2 errors.
Your thoughts welcome.

Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
no servers configured for repository
Failed to synchronize databases
Warning: installing libffi (3.4.7-1) breaks dependency 'libffi=3.4.6' required by lib32-libffi
Add lib32-libffi to remove
Warning: installing pcre2 (10.45-1) breaks dependency 'pcre2=10.44' required by lib32-pcre2
Add lib32-pcre2 to remove
Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'lib32-libffi' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-pcre2 breaks dependency 'lib32-pcre2' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'libffi.so=8-32' required by lib32-glib2
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'lib32-libffi' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-pcre2 breaks dependency 'lib32-pcre2' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'libffi.so=8-32' required by lib32-glib2

Phemisters · 6 March 2025 16:18

As a first step I’d suggest updating your mirrors. I normally use

sudo pacman-mirrors --geoip

but you prefer to specify a location or search for the fastest.

Edited: If you edited pacman.conf you may want to share your current file to allow people to check if it looks sensible.

Ben · 6 March 2025 16:22

Good success recently with this one:

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

–geoip only pulls in a single mirror for me… but as always YMMV

Phemisters · 6 March 2025 16:26

For me it pulls in 3, but as always people should pay attention to the results of any command they are given to run!

Reid · 6 March 2025 16:30

Thanks for the really fast replies.
I’ve updated the mirrors re-ran the update (below). The pacman.conf is shown below this:

sudo pamac update
Warning: Building packages as dynamic user
Warning: Setting build directory to /var/cache/pamac
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
no servers configured for repository
Failed to synchronize databases
Failed to synchronize AUR database
Warning: installing libffi (3.4.7-1) breaks dependency 'libffi=3.4.6' required by lib32-libffi
Add lib32-libffi to remove
Warning: installing pcre2 (10.45-1) breaks dependency 'pcre2=10.44' required by lib32-pcre2
Add lib32-pcre2 to remove
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'lib32-libffi' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-pcre2 breaks dependency 'lib32-pcre2' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'libffi.so=8-32' required by lib32-glib2
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'lib32-libffi' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-pcre2 breaks dependency 'lib32-pcre2' required by lib32-glib2
- removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'libffi.so=8-32' required by lib32-glib2
rsv2@reid-galagopro:~$

rsv2@reid-galagopro:~$ more /etc/pacman.conf
#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir     = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg      = pacman glibc manjaro-system
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto

#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#NoProgressBar
# We cannot check disk space from within a chroot environment
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
#ParallelDownloads = 5

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Manjaro Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir     = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg      = pacman glibc manjaro-system
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto

#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#NoProgressBar
# We cannot check disk space from within a chroot environment
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
#ParallelDownloads = 5

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Manjaro Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.

[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
rsv2@reid-galagopro:~$

n_b · 6 March 2025 16:39

Same problem for me.

ben75 · 6 March 2025 16:44

Delete this line too.

Reid · 6 March 2025 16:49

Ah…that’s the ticket… updating now.
many thank Everyone!!

Phemisters · 6 March 2025 16:52

I’m no expert but you have two sections called [option] which is confusing. To me they look identical so you can probably safely delete one of them, leaving you with something like

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir     = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg      = pacman glibc manjaro-system
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto

#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#NoProgressBar
# We cannot check disk space from within a chroot environment
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
#ParallelDownloads = 5

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Manjaro Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

Of course, you’ll want to keep your current file backed-up in case I am making things worse!

Reid · 6 March 2025 16:57

Ok -… I will certainly look at that. Always open to learning.
Of course, I am amazingly good at making things worse, so will try to be careful.

Reid · 6 March 2025 20:04

made the change. Saved it and updated. All good.
thx again

system · 9 March 2025 20:05

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