On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:09:12 -0700 Greg Minshall <minshall@acm.org> wrote:
hi. a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated /var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink.
today, after a while, i did a 'pacman -Syu', which downloaded lots, and ran through a lot new keys, upgrading, etc., then failed (see below), and (the symbolic link at) /var/cache/pacman seems to have disappeared.
any suggestions on how i might recover? (and, should i, possibly, rather than using a symlink, have modified, e.g., /etc/pacman.conf?)
i have all the files still in /home/pacman/pkg, etc. (and have put back the symlink).
cheers, and thanks in advance, Greg ---- (210/487) upgrading pacman-mirrorlist [#########... truncated ... #################] 100% warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: No such file or directory error: could not commit transaction error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. bash apollo2 (master): {1185} sudo pacman -Syu [sudo] password for minshall: sudo: pacman: command not found bash apollo2 (master): {1186} ls /var/cache/ atop.d/ fontconfig/ ldconfig/ lightdm/ man/ pkgfile/ private/
Use pacman-static or an install disk (pacman --root) to finish the update and reinstall pacman. In the future, bind mounts.