error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error) | "/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db" is not readable: No such file or directory

[msansen]

Hello :)

I'm getting errors i didn't have a few days/weeks ago, i've tried a few (a lot 😁) other mirror with the same result.

Tested using ./arch-bootstrap.sh -a x86_64 /chroot on a debian 10 but i got the same from a ubuntu system:

(...)
--- configure DNS and pacman
--- install packages: acl archlinux-keyring attr brotli bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libnghttp2 libnghttp3 libssh2 lzo openssl pacman pacman-mirrorlist xz zlib krb5 e2fsprogs keyutils libidn2 libunistring gcc-libs lz4 libpsl icu libunistring zstd filesystem base coreutils bash grep gawk file tar gzip systemd sed
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)

Using pacman's --debug, i get these errors

"/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db" is not readable: No such file or directory

Any idea of what changed to cause this ?

Full debug log:

--- install packages: acl archlinux-keyring attr brotli bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libnghttp2 libnghttp3 libssh2 lzo openssl pacman pacman-mirrorlist xz zlib krb5 e2fsprogs keyutils libidn2 libunistring gcc-libs lz4 libpsl icu libunistring zstd filesystem base coreutils bash grep gawk file tar gzip systemd sed
debug: config: arch: x86_64
debug: pacman v7.0.0 - libalpm v15.0.0
debug: config: new section 'options'
debug: config: HoldPkg: pacman
debug: config: HoldPkg: glibc
debug: config: Architecture: auto
debug: config: arch: x86_64
debug: config: sandboxuser: alpm
debug: config: SigLevel: Never
debug: config: LocalFileSigLevel: Optional
debug: config: new section 'core'
debug: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 78: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: new section 'extra'
debug: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 84: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.conf
debug: setup_libalpm called
debug: option 'logfile' = /var/log/pacman.log
debug: option 'gpgdir' = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
debug: option 'hookdir' = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
debug: option 'cachedir' = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
debug: registering sync database 'core'
debug: database path for tree core set to /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db
debug: "/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db" is not readable: No such file or directory
debug: setting usage of 15 for core repository
debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64
debug: registering sync database 'extra'
debug: database path for tree extra set to /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db
debug: "/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db" is not readable: No such file or directory
debug: setting usage of 15 for extra repository
debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64
debug: option 'sandboxuser' = alpm
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)
debug: unregistering database 'local'
debug: unregistering database 'core'
debug: unregistering database 'extra'

[msansen]

This commit from ruanformigoni's fork fixed it for me: ruanformigoni@d6ce39c

(thanks @ruanformigoni !)

[ruanformigoni]

No problem! I thought it was only happening in my fork 😵‍💫