Bug report for "pacman -Sc" (not) handling directories
While calling "pacman -Sc" I got the following errors: [root@rhino ~]# pacman -Sc Packages to keep: All locally installed packages Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache... error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-uTHinP: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5u2OCC: Error reading fd 7 Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] y removing unused sync repositories... [root@rhino ~]# The reason is that the paths are actually pointing to directories: [root@rhino ~]# rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ': Is a directory [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-uTHinP [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5u2OCC After deleting the directories manually no more errors: [root@rhino ~]# pacman -Sc Packages to keep: All locally installed packages Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache... Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] removing unused sync repositories... [root@rhino ~]# Maybe pacman could check for directories as well to avoid manual clean up. Wish you all a happy new year, Victor PS: I would have loved to report this issue directly to the GitLab instance but I somehow fail in the process to register...
Victor Toni <victor.toni@gmail.com> wrote:
While calling "pacman -Sc" I got the following errors:
[root@rhino ~]# pacman -Sc Packages to keep: All locally installed packages
Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache... error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-uTHinP: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5u2OCC: Error reading fd 7
Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] y removing unused sync repositories... [root@rhino ~]#
The reason is that the paths are actually pointing to directories: [root@rhino ~]# rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ': Is a directory [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-uTHinP [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5u2OCC
After deleting the directories manually no more errors: [root@rhino ~]# pacman -Sc Packages to keep: All locally installed packages
Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache...
Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] removing unused sync repositories... [root@rhino ~]#
Maybe pacman could check for directories as well to avoid manual clean up.
I am just a user. I have no role at archlinux what so ever. Ignoring directories is an option. It could be the basic issue is these directories should have been cleaned up before pacman -Sc could run into them. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues/297
Wish you all a happy new year, Victor
PS: I would have loved to report this issue directly to the GitLab instance but I somehow fail in the process to register...
I don't know why, and where, you failed. I guess this is better discussed at arch-general@lists.archlinux.org, or bbs.archlinux.org. Are you aware to the notice at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/users/sign_in about accountsupport?
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