[image] As to be seen in sreenshot, something creates an empty folder every hour. Pamac updates every 6 hours ! Did not look into journalctl at the moment … will do that later! journalctl tells me: [john1@manjaro ~]$ journalctl|grep -i 08:58 Mai 27 08:58:26 manjaro NetworkManager[1002]: <inf…

To me it seems like those services (keyring or pamac update) fail because of a bad wifi signal or drop and reschedule and try to run after an hour. Those folders are the typical pamac/pacman temporary download folders. And there is a bug and they are not always cleaned after, but the temp files in …

In preferences of pamac there is an option to download updates automatically. Do you have it on? I don’t know if it has something to do with that but try to turn it off.

There is a systemd unit archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.timer which will update Arch Linux keyring from time to time. $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.timer [Unit] Description=Refresh existing PGP keys of archlinux-keyring regularly [Timer] OnCalendar=weekly Persistent=true Ran…

.. turned it off … we’ll see !

If it is not archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.timer it could be pamac-daemon.service from libpamac $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/pamac-daemon.service [Unit] Description=Pamac Daemon [Service] Type=dbus BusName=org.manjaro.pamac.daemon ExecStart=/usr/bin/pamac-daemon $ cat /usr/share/dbus-1/system-se…

Last comment on Gitlab is 14 hours ago. I see these empty folders since january 2026.

[image] Access denied to '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-ASOzbC' permission denied Support It’s a known issue: [image] makepkg --install leaves stray download-XXXXXX dir behind (#297) · Issues ·... This appears to be a new regression in pacman-7…

Your explanation is logic for my understanding , i’ll mark it tomorrow as solution, just to see what will happen tonight . When i look at an ongoing update i remember that gpg updates for example take usually lots of time . I have a systemd-timer that “rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-*” ever…

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