Errors running update

I installed EOS on a 2012 iMac in my garage I use when working on my cars. Once installed some weeks back, I am getting the following errors:

Arch & EndeavourOS update check:
:: Searching Arch & EndeavourOS for updates…
endeavouros-mirrorlist 4.0.1-1 → 4.0.3-1
eos-bash-shared 1.8.2-1 → 1.9.6-1
eos-log-tool 1.4.6-1 → 1.4.7-1
eos-translations 1.1.36-1 → 1.1.37-1
inxi 3.3.05.1-1 → 3.3.06.1-1
reflector-simple 1.16.8-1 → 1.17.3-1
welcome 3.13.4-1 → 3.14.1-1
yay 10.3.0-1 → 10.3.1-1
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core 596.5 KiB 1052 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------] 100%
extra 596.5 KiB 1625 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
community 596.5 KiB 1704 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
multilib 596.5 KiB 1277 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
endeavouros is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade…
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)

AUR update check:
→ could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
→ could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
→ could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
→ could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
:: Searching AUR for updates…
→ Missing AUR Packages: a52dec aalib accountsservice acl adobe-source-code-pro-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-kr-fonts adwaita-icon-theme alsa-card-profiles alsa-firmware alsa-lib alsa-plugins alsa-topology-conf alsa-ucm-conf alsa-utils aom archlinux-keyring argon2 at-spi2-atk at-spi2-core atk atkmm attr audit autoconf automake avahi b43-fwcutter baloo base bash bash-completion bind binutils bison bluez bluez-libs boost boost-libs broadcom-wl-dkms brotli btrfs-progs bubblewrap bzip2 ca-certificates ca-certificates-mozilla ca-certificates-utils cairo cairomm cantarell-fonts capitaine-cursors cdparanoia cifs-utils colord convertlit coreutils cracklib crda cryptsetup curl dav1d db dbus dbus-glib dbus-python dconf dconf-editor desktop-file-utils device-mapper dhclient dialog diffutils ding-libs dkms dmidecode dmraid dnsmasq dnssec-anchors dosfstools double-conversion doxygen e2fsprogs ebook-tools edk2-shell efibootmgr efitools efivar elfutils ell enchant epdfview ethtool exfat-utils exiv2 exo expat expect f2fs-tools fakeroot ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer file file-roller filesystem findutils firefox flac flex fontconfig freetype2 fribidi fsarchiver fuse-common fuse2 fuse3 galculator garcon gawk gc gcc gcc-libs gcr gd gdbm gdk-pixbuf2 geoip geoip-database gettext giflib git glances glib-networking glib2 glibc glibmm gmp gnome-online-accounts gnome-themes-extra gnu-netcat gnupg gnutls gobject-introspection-runtime gpart gpgme gpm gptfdisk graphene graphite grep groff grub gsettings-desktop-schemas gsm gspell gssproxy gst-libav gst-plugin-pipewire gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-base-libs gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly gstreamer gtk-engine-murrine gtk-update-icon-cache gtk2 gtk3 gtkmm3 gtksourceview3 gtksourceview4 guile gvfs gvfs-afc gvfs-goa gvfs-gphoto2 gvfs-mtp gvfs-nfs gvfs-smb gzip hardinfo harfbuzz harfbuzz-icu haveged hdparm hicolor-icon-theme hidapi hwdetect hwids hwinfo hyphen iana-etc icu imlib2 inetutils 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xorg-xmodmap xorg-xprop xorg-xrandr xorg-xrdb xorg-xset xorgproto xplc xvidcore xz zeromq zimg zip zita-alsa-pcmi zita-resampler zlib zstd
:: 1 Packages to upgrade.
1 aur/jack 0.125.0-9 → 0.125.0-10
==> Packages to exclude: (eg: “1 2 3”, “1-3”, “^4” or repo name)
==> ^A^A

Try resorting your mirrorlist from the welcome application.

Then try updating with:

sudo pacman -Syyu
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Further along:

[username@Linux ~]$ sudo pacman -Syyu
[sudo] password for username:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core 596.5 KiB 877 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------] 100%
extra 596.5 KiB 1570 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
community 596.5 KiB 1420 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
multilib 596.5 KiB 1491 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
endeavouros 19.5 KiB 24.7 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade…
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)
[username@Linux ~]$

What is the output of file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db

Since you are downloading the same amount for all the dbs, what you are downloading is not the dbs. Can you open a web browser and browse? Are you on a wifi connection that requires validation/authentication?

Yes on the web, streaming radio with no drops. I did have to manually config the WiFi as it was not enabled out of the box after install.

~]$ file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db
/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines (65536), with no line terminators

It is an html document. That means when it tries to connect it is getting blocked by something and getting a webpage instead. Look inside the html document and see what it is asking for.

No idea what this is?
image

Can we see the contents of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

mirror.txt (36.8 KB)

Yeah…remember when I said this:

Did you do that? If so, what did you do specifically?

resorted to “location” ran command as you said.

Still getting :: Starting full system upgrade…
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)

Also, EOS DB is zipped?
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Can we see the whole output from sudo pacman -Syyu and the new contents of your mirrorlist since you resorted?

Don’t post screen shots. If you want help…post terminal output.

The mirror output he wanted apparently had links, I got error I was maxed at 5 as a new user?

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The issue may be that the first mirror on your list is bad. However, that mirrorlist you posted is the default mirrorlist, not one that would come from sorting by country.

You can try deleting the first mirror but you would be better of re-sorting your list properly.

yes no problem… i see that the mirrorlist is not ranked at all it looks like the default mirrorlist with all mirrors in it… there are always some that do not work… and pacman has a BUG where it do download the errorpages as database files… so you need to have working mirrors in the list to get the packages database downloaded.
2021-08-16_00-54

I selected Mexico only, same error
sudo pacman -Syyu
[sudo] password for username:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core 596.5 KiB 973 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------] 100%
extra 596.5 KiB 1719 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
community 596.5 KiB 1305 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
multilib 596.5 KiB 1444 KiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------] 100%
endeavouros 19.5 KiB 23.7 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade…
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)

Can we see your new /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist now?

You are still downloading the exact same size html list so I am thinking your mirrorlist isn’t getting updated.

so you have one mirror in the list… i think there are not that much mirrors in mexico… you need nearby countries too

## Mexico
Server = https://arch.mirror.jsc.mx/$repo/os/$arch

can you fetch the datadase file manually?

wget https://arch.mirror.jsc.mx/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz

to send mirrorlist to a pastebin and get the url to the pastebin:
cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | eos-sendlog

wget https://arch.mirror.jsc.mx/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz
–2021-08-15 19:11:33-- https://arch.mirror.jsc.mx/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz
Loaded CA certificate ‘/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt’
Resolving arch.mirror.jsc.mx (arch.mirror.jsc.mx)… 2806:2f0:90c1:95de::2
Connecting to arch.mirror.jsc.mx (arch.mirror.jsc.mx)|2806:2f0:90c1:95de::2|:443… failed: Network is unreachable.